First Appointments by President of Ukraine Yushchenko

KIEV, Ukraine -- Before leaving for Moscow, the President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko has made his first cabinet appointments. Yulia Tymoshenko has been appointed acting Prime Minister.

Yulia Tymoshenko

Besides, the President of Ukraine has cancelled the structure of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine in its present form yet signed a decree on forming the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine. Oleksandr Zinchenko is appointed Secretary General to the President of Ukraine

The Ukrainian President has appointed Petro Poroshenko National Security Council Secretary.

Information has been provided by the spokeswoman for Ukraine’s President, Iryna Gerashchenko.