Three foreigners appointed in parliament to Ukraine's government have been granted Ukrainian citizenship by President Petro Poroshenko.
Georgian Aleksander Kvitashvili will lead the health ministry, U.S. citizen Natalie Jaresko is now the chief of a Ministry of Finance and Lithuanian Aivaras Abromavicius is a new minister for the economy.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said the new cabinet members will be responsible for taking “a historic chance to create a new Ukraine.”
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