Ukraine appoints new Foreign Minister and Prosecutor General
Foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin (L) President of Ukraibe Petro Poroshenko(C) and Andriy Deshchytsia at еhe Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on June 19.Photo: Kyiv Post
(VOVworld)- Ukraine's parliament has confirmed the appointments of several key ministers in the country's new government. The former Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Pavlo Klimkin, was appointed Foreign Minister Thursday. The parliament unanimously approved First Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Yarema as Prosecutor General. Klimkin replaces the outgoing Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsia, now infamous for using foul language to describe Russian President Vladimir Putin. Yarema has long served in the public security sector and used to be a member of Ukraine’s Batkivshina party.