The Ukrainian government was surprised to hear the negative assessment of the country's election process given by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to a statement of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine distributed on October 31.

"We were surprised by the sharply negative evaluation of the election process at absolutely all of its stages expressed by representatives of the U.S. Department of State, and personally by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton," the statement read.

"We do not understand on which data and from what sources our U.S. partners' evaluations were based, particularly the declarations that the official results announced by the Central Election Commission allegedly differ from the results of exit polls."

The ministry said that international observers did not notice any systemic violations at the elections in Ukraine, and moreover "none of international election observation missions registered attempts to falsify the results of the voting."

Clinton also expressed concern about the fact that international observers were not allowed to monitor the vote counting process at district election commissions.

"However, that is what the law says, which was approved by both the ruling majority and the oppositional parties. At the same time, Clinton missed the fact that representatives of all political forces could watch the vote counting at all levels, particularly at district commissions, which allowed them to prevent abuses in the interests of opponents at all stages," the ministry said.

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine also expressed regret that the U.S. Department of State completely ignored that fact that opposition parties received the number of seats according to party lists that was forecast by sociologists.

"We regret that the U.S. Secretary of State tried to connect her political disputes with the Ukrainian authorities related to the case of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko with assessments of the elections in Ukraine, while members of the Batkivschyna Party by their active participation in the campaign and public plans regarding their activities in a new Verkhovna Rada are demonstrating their reluctance to combine these issues," reads the document.

"We also consider incorrect the fact that the statements made on behalf of the U.S. Department of State and Secretary of State did not mention the positive dynamics in cooperation between the two states in many directions. We are anticipating fairer conclusions on the October 28 elections. At the same time, the government of Ukraine jointly with a new parliament will work to eliminate the drawbacks of the election legislation and its implementations that raised grounded criticism of international observers," the ministry said.