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The Ukrainian government has asked the parliamentary coalition to decide on candidates of three deputy prime ministers, including to set up new posts of deputy prime ministers for energy and for industry, and two ministers, Deputy Prime Minister Viacheslav Kyrylenko has said.

“I am asking the parliamentary coalition to urgently put forward their candidates… for the first deputy prime minister and the deputy prime ministers of Ukraine for energy and for industry, the deputy prime minister of Ukraine for European integration, the ecology and natural resources minister of Ukraine, and the health minister,” Kyrylenko read a letter of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk addressed to Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman and the parliamentary coalition.

According to him, if the Verkhovna Rada makes relevant proposals, the government and the prime minister will consider them.