Final Cabinet post is filled (10/16/05)

Final Cabinet post is filled

KYIV - President Viktor Yushchenko on October 12 appointed Yurii Poliachenko as health minister, thus completing the formation of Prime Minister Yurii Yekhanurov's Cabinet of Ministers. Dr. Poliachenko, 42, an orthopedist/traumatologist who was director of Cuba's medical rehabilitation center in 1995-1998, was deputy health minister in 2002-2003 and deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council in 2003-2005. Of the 25 Cabinet members appointed by Mr. Yushchenko within the past three weeks, 11 are new appointments. (RFE/RL Newsline, Ukrinform)

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