Polish Deputy PM Appointed As Ukrainian President Representative

Former deputy prime minister and finance minister of Poland Leszek Balcerowicz has been appointed as a Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko representative in the country’s cabinet.

KIEV (Sputnik) – Former deputy prime minister and finance minister of Poland Leszek Balcerowicz has been appointed to represent Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the country’s cabinet, a decree posted on the presidential website Friday stated.

"Our principled position is that we will not have a presidential and prime ministerial team and group. We will have a single common group that will reform the country," Poroshenko was quoted in the announcement.

Balcerowicz implemented a series of "shock therapy" economic reforms in late 1980s and early 1990s known as the Balcerowicz Plan. The newly-appointed official asserted that he would work actively with foreign investors and politicians to put Ukraine on the path of reform.

Former finance minister of Slovakia Ivan Miklos will lead a group of advisers to newly-appointed Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, the announcement added. Miklos pledged to use the country’s "vast untapped potential" to lift Ukraine out of a political crisis.

Ukraine’s wide range of reforms, including anti-corruption measures, improving public finance management, power decentralization and the reorganization of the national energy sector, are required to release the latest bailout package from the International Monetary Fund.