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Ukraine PM seeks to sack finance minister
KIEV, June 6, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman
said on Wednesday he has submitted to parliament a motion for his
internationally-respected finance minister to be dismissed.
Finance minister Oleksandr Danylyuk, a respected reformer backed by the
International Monetary Fund, has ruffled many feathers as he seeks to clean
up the ex-Soviet country’s fiscal and customs services.
In a post on Facebook, Groysman accused Danylyuk of distributing
“distorted information among our international partners.”
The sacking of the 42-year-old finance minister — which needs to be
approved by Ukraine’s parliament — would raise concern among the country’s
foreign donors.
BSS/AFP/IJ/1659 hrs