OREANDA-NEWS  On 24 February was announced, that Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko suggests introducing a post of Vice Prime Minister for Regional Policy and Housing and Communal Service in the Cabinet. She declared this taking the floor at a general portback election meeting of the Association of Ukrainian Cities and Communities.

“I propose to nominate the worthiest, the most professional person who has a mayor’s experience, non-politicized, that it the most important. Nominate such candidature and I name him/her for the post of special Vice Prime Minister for Regional Policy and Housing and Communal Service,” Yulia Tymoshenko stressed.

The Prime Minister expressed confidence that this would boost cooperation between the Government and local authorities and added that she personally would back up the results of such cooperation, “I will do my best that your bills to be passed in the Verkhovna Rada and resolutions to be approved at the Government’s sitting”.