title: Pustovoitenko government
text: # Pustovoitenko government
  
  The Pustovoitenko Government was created after the Ukrainian parliament had ousted the previous Cabinet of Pavlo Lazarenko (officially Lazarenko left the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine for health reasons).
  
  On July 16, 1997, 226 deputies voted for the appointment of Valeriy Pustovoitenko, chairman of the People's Democratic Party, as Prime Minister of Ukraine. His new government was Ukraine's eighth since Ukraine gained its independence in August 1991.
  
  On November 30, 1999 the Cabinet resign due to reelection of President Kuchma in 1999.
  
  ## Composition
  
  | Office | Name minister |
  | - | - |
  | Prime Minister | Valeriy Pustovoitenko |
  | First Vice Prime Minister | Anatoliy Holubchenko Volodymyr Kuratchenko Anatoliy Kinakh |
  | Vice Prime Minister (on issues of Economy) | Anatoliy Kinakh |
  | Vice Prime Minister - Minister of Labor and Social Policy | Mykola Biloblotsky |
  | Vice Prime Minister | Volodymyr Semynozhenko |
  | Vice Prime Minister | Valeriy Smoliy |
  | Vice Prime Minister - Minister of Agro-Industrial Complex | Mykhailo Hladiy |
  | Minister of Coal [Mining] Industry | Stanislav Yanko Serhiy Tulub |
  | Minister of Rural Business and Provision | Yuriy Karasyk Borys Supikhanov |
  | Minister of Economics | Viktor Suslov Vasyl Rohovyi |
  | Minister of Finance | Ihor Mitiukov |
  | Minister of Defense | Oleksandr Kuzmuk |
  | Minister of Internal Affairs | Yuriy Kravchenko |
  | Minister of Industrial Policy | Vasyl Hureyev |
  | Minister of Healthcare | Andriy Serdyuk Raisa Bogatyreva |
  | Minister of Culture and Arts | Dmytro Ostapenko Yuriy Bohutsky |
  | Minister of Education | Mykhailo Zghurovskyi Valentyn Zaychuk |
  | Minister of Power Generation | Oleksiy Sheberstov Ivan Plachkov |
  | Minister of Cabinet of Ministers | Anatoliy Tolstoukhov |
  | Minister of Foreign Affairs | Hennadiy Udovenko Borys Tarasyuk |
  | Minister of Emergencies and Population Protection from consequences of Chornobyl Catastrophe | Valeriy Kalchenko Vasyl Durdynets |
  | Minister on issues of Sciences and Technologies | Volodymyr Semynozhenko Stanislav Dovhyi |
  | Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade | Serhiy Osyka Andrii Goncharuk |
  | Minister of Natural Environment and Nuclear Safety | Yuriy Kostenko Vasyl Shevchuk |
  | Minister of Transportation | Valeriy Cherep Ivan Dankevych Leonid Kostyuchenko |
  | Minister of Justice | Suzanna Stanik |
  | Minister on issues of Family and Youth | Valentyna Dovzhenko |
  | Minister of Information | Zinoviy Kulyk |
  | Minister of Labor and Social Policy | Ivan Sakhan |
  