Saakashvili's personal agreement is needed to launch procedure of appointing him as Ukrainian PM - Poroshenko

11:35, 24.09.2015 1 min read

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has responded to an online petition asking him to appoint the Odesa region's Governor Mikheil Saakashvili Ukraine's prime minister.

"The candidate's personal agreement to take on this post is a necessary condition for launching the aforementioned procedure of appointing the prime minister of Ukraine. However, Saakashvili has not offered any comments on this matter," Poroshenko said in his reply, which was published on the presidential website on Thursday.

Since on December 11, 2014 the Ukrainian parliament, Verkhovna Rada, approved the program of Arseniy Yatseniuk's cabinet, parliament cannot consider the issue of this government's responsibility until December 11, 2015, the president said.

An online petition seeking Saakashvili's appointment as the prime minister of Ukraine has been signed by over 31,500 citizens.

It was reported that Saakashvili had earlier said more than once that he would not seek the post of Ukraine's prime minister.