{{Short description|Government of Ukraine}} {{Underreferenced|date=July 2023}} The '''Pustovoitenko Government''' was created after the Ukrainian parliament had ousted the previous Cabinet of Pavlo Lazarenko (officially Lazarenko left the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine for health reasons).<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nv.ua/ukr/opinion/prem-jer-ministri-nezalezhnoji-ukrajini-jdut-tilki-z-bojem-109125.html | title=Прем'єр-міністри незалежної України йдуть тільки з боєм }}</ref>
On July 16, 1997, 226 deputies voted for the appointment of Valeriy Pustovoitenko, chairman of the People's Democratic Party, as Prime Minister of Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://umoloda.kyiv.ua/number/1917/369/68192/ | title=1997. Політ Каденюка і «проліт» Лазаренка }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.istpravda.com.ua/dates/2019/07/16/45983/ | title=16 липня в історії }}</ref> His new government was Ukraine's eighth since Ukraine gained its independence in August 1991.
On November 30, 1999 the Cabinet resign due to reelection of President Kuchma in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://m.ednist.info/article/38700 | title=Прем'єр-міністри України з 1990 по 2016 рік: історія посади | language=ru | trans-title=Prime Ministers of Ukraine from 1990 to 2016: history of the position | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202093401/https://m.ednist.info/article/38700 | archive-date=2023-02-02 }}</ref>
==Composition== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" !Office !Name minister !Term !Party |- |Prime Minister |Valeriy Pustovoitenko |1997-1999 | People's Democratic Party |- |First Vice Prime Minister |Anatoliy Holubchenko<br />Volodymyr Kuratchenko<br />Anatoliy Kinakh |1997-1998 1998-1999 1999 |Independent Independent Independent |- |Vice Prime Minister (on issues of Economy) |Anatoliy Kinakh |1997-1999 |Independent |- |Vice Prime Minister - Minister of Labor and Social Policy |Mykola Biloblotsky |1997-1998 | |- |Vice Prime Minister |Volodymyr Semynozhenko |1997-1999 |Independent |- |Vice Prime Minister |Valeriy Smoliy |1997-1999 |Independent |- |Vice Prime Minister - Minister of Agro-Industrial Complex |Mykhailo Hladiy |1997-1999 |Agrarian Party |- |[[Ministry of Energy (Ukraine)|Minister of Coal [Mining] Industry]] |Stanislav Yanko<br />Serhiy Tulub |1997-1998 1998-1999 |Independent Independent |- |Minister of Rural Business and Provision |Yuriy Karasyk<br />Borys Supikhanov |1997-1998 1998-1999 | |- |Minister of Economics |Viktor Suslov<br />Vasyl Rohovyi |1997-1998 1998-1999 |Independent Independent |- |Minister of Finance |Ihor Mityukov |1997-1999 |Independent |- |Minister of Defence |Oleksandr Kuzmuk |1997-1999 |Armed Forces of Ukraine |- |Minister of Internal Affairs |Yuriy Kravchenko |1997-1999 |Independent (Militsiya) |- |Minister of Industrial Policy |Vasyl Hureyev |1997-1999 | |- |Minister of Healthcare |Andriy Serdyuk<br />Raisa Bogatyreva |1997-1999 1999 |Independent Independent |- |Minister of Culture and Arts |Dmytro Ostapenko<br />Yuriy Bohutsky |1997-1999 1999 | |- |Minister of Education |Mykhailo Zghurovskyi<br />Valentyn Zaychuk |1997-1999 1999 |Independent Independent |- |Minister of Power Generation |Oleksiy Sheberstov<br />Ivan Plachkov |1997-1999 1999 | |- |Minister of Cabinet of Ministers |Anatoliy Tolstoukhov |1997-1999 | |- |Minister of Foreign Affairs |Hennadiy Udovenko<br />Borys Tarasyuk |1997-1998 1998-1999 |People's Movement of Ukraine People's Movement of Ukraine |- |Minister of Emergencies and Population Protection from consequences of Chornobyl Catastrophe |Valeriy Kalchenko<br />Vasyl Durdynets |1997-1999 1999 |Independent Independent (Internal Troops of Ukraine) |- |Minister on issues of Sciences and Technologies |Volodymyr Semynozhenko<br />Stanislav Dovhyi |1997-1998 1998-1999 |Independent Independent |- |Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade |Serhiy Osyka<br />Andrii Goncharuk |1997-1999 1999 | |- |Minister of Natural Environment and Nuclear Safety |Yuriy Kostenko<br />Vasyl Shevchuk |1997-1998 1998-1999 |People's Movement of Ukraine Independent |- |Minister of Transportation |Valeriy Cherep<br />Ivan Dankevych<br />Leonid Kostyuchenko |1997-1998 1998-1999 1999 | |- |Minister of Justice |Suzanna Stanik |1997-1999 |Independent |- |Minister on issues of Family and Youth |Valentyna Dovzhenko |1997-1999 | |- |Minister of Information |Zinoviy Kulyk |1997-1999 | |- |Minister of Labor and Social Policy |Ivan Sakhan |1998-1999 | |}
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