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. Yanukovych had been elected

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with 234 votes, only 8 more than needed. On December 1, 2004 (during the

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) the

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passed a vote of no-confidence. The government supported NATO membership of Ukraine (2002) and sent Ukrainian troops to Iraq in 2003.

Composition

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– Prime Minister * Mykola Azarov – First Deputy Prime Minister * Vitaly Hayduk – Deputy Prime Minister for fuel and energy complex * Ivan Kyrylenko – Deputy Prime Minister * Dmytro Tabachnyk – Deputy Prime Minister for humanitarian issues * Serhy Ryzhuk – Agricultural Policy * Yury Smirnov – Interior Affairs * Vasyl Shevchuk – Environment and Natural Resources * Valery Khoroshkovsky – Economy and European Integration * Anatoliy Zlenko – Foreign Affairs * Hryhory Reva – Emergency Situations and Chernobyl Cleanup * Yury Bohutsky – Culture and the Regions *

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Volodymyr Shkidchenko – Defence * Vasyl Kremen – Education and Science * Andry Pidayev – Health * Oleksandr Lavrynovych – Justice * Serhy Yermilov – Fuel and Energy * Mikhail Papiyev – Labour and Social Policy * Anatoliy Myalytsya – Industrial Policy *

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– Transport

References

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