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President Leonid Kuchma has set about buttressing the executive branch with loyal people … Kuchma signed a decree on further administrative reforms in which he instituted the posts of state secretary of the govern-ment and state secretaries of the ministries. All state secretaries and their deputies will be appointed by the president for five-year terms and will control virtually all the work of their ministries, from staffing to the alloca-tion of funds and the appointment of directors of the ministries’ regional offices. The decree says that the state secretaries ‘shall oversee the partic-ular operations of their ministries’ and ‘shall be responsible for organizational, legal, expert-analytical, informational and technical support for the ministries’ work’. The post of deputy ministries is hence-forth abolished. State secretaries can be fired only by the president … Presidential chief of staff Vladimir Litvin commented … ‘Virtually all levers of influence are concentrated in the hands of the ministry state secretaries’.
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President Leonid Kuchma has set about buttressing the executive branch with loyal people … Kuchma signed a decree on further administrative reforms in which he instituted the posts of state secretary of the govern-ment and state secretaries of the ministries. All state secretaries and their deputies will be appointed by the president for five-year terms and will control virtually all the work of their ministries, from staffing to the alloca-tion of funds and the appointment of directors of the ministries’ regional offices. The decree says that the state secretaries ‘shall oversee the partic-ular operations of their ministries’ and ‘shall be responsible for organizational, legal, expert-analytical, informational and technical support for the ministries’ work’. The post of deputy ministries is hence-forth abolished. State secretaries can be fired only by the president … Presidential chief of staff Vladimir Litvin commented … ‘Virtually all levers of influence are concentrated in the hands of the ministry state secretaries’.
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The presidential decree on further development of administrative reform created the following positions: the state secretary of the cabinet of ministers and state secretaries of the ministries (to be appointed for a term equal to that of the president, i.e. five years).
