Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has created the Committee on the Reform and Development of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Military-Industrial Complex.
A decree to that effect was signed on Friday and posted on the Web site of the head of state.
According to the document, the committee is chaired by the Ukrainian president, who approves its personal composition under a motion from the committee’s executive secretary.
Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Andriy Kliuyev has been appointed executive secretary of the committee.
Kliuyev was ordered to prepare within two weeks a draft regulation on the committee for consideration by the National Security and Defense Council.
The committee also includes Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, Head of the State Space Agency Yuriy Alekseyev, Emergencies Minister Viktor Baloha, Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko, Chief of General Staff and Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Volodymyr Zamana, Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko, Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Chief Ihor Kalinin, Finance Minister Yuriy Kolobov, Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych, Head of the State Border Service Mykola Lytvyn, Head of the Presidential Administration Serhiy Liovochkin, Defense Minister Dmytro Salamatin, and Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policy Sergiy Tigipko.
The heads of the subcommittees of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense, Anatoliy Kinakh and Oleksandr Kuzmuk could also be included in the committee by consent.
