Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk believes the political crisis in Ukraine provides an opportunity to reset the relations in the Ukrainian administration for effective reforms.

"A crisis is always an opportunity… We should use this opportunity to reset relations in the Ukrainian administration, to state the principles on which the Ukrainian government will work and conduct reforms in the future," Yatseniuk said on the program 10 Minutes with the Prime Minister on Sunday.

He said there are five principles on which the government team is ready to continue its work.

Yatseniuk said the first of these principles is "the absence of political pressure and political corruption." The prime minister said every minister appointed by the coalition bears full responsibility for his sector and the policies in it and therefore "no political figure and no businessman who has his own interests has a right to pressure a minister and make him make decisions that contradict the policies of the minister and the interests of the Ukrainian state."

"There will be no more political quotas in public administration. No political and business interests in the administration of state-run companies and state banks," Yatseniuk said.

He said the second principle is full intolerance of political and economic corruption, which will consist in appointments in state companies only through "an independent nomination committee." Additionally, sixty largest state companies will get new CEOs that will be independent of the political forces and business groups, and the privatization process will begin. "The parliament should adopt a law that will enable strategic investors to participate and obtain state facilities at a public, fair and transparent tender […] and deprive state-run companies of political influence and the status of breadwinners for specific political parties and forces," Yatseniuk said.

The third principle mentioned by Yatseniuk is full transparency in the work of the heads of executive administration and local self-government bodies and Ukrainian parliamentarians. "Meetings of the Ukrainian Cabinet will be broadcast live," he said. Additionally, the Cabinet initiates the introduction of "an ethical code for public servants" envisaging compulsory recording of meetings and negotiations between politicians and officials to combat shadow agreements

The fourth principle mentioned by Yatseniuk is the principle of mutual responsibility of the Cabinet of Ministers and Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada. "This means that the government is doing its part of the work, like the executive administration, but the Ukrainian parliament is voting for laws that are needed for conducting reforms in the country and trusts the government that it formed and is helping the government change the country and make the right decisions for the Ukrainian state," he said.

The fifth principle mentioned by Yatseniuk should be distribution of power that will give the Cabinet full executive power and will put it in charge of "social, economic, financial and budget policies, the financing of the army and the Ukrainian Armed Forces," and the Verkhovna Rada will be a legislative body to which the government will report and which "passes laws to implement the government's program and the coalition agreement."

Yatseniuk said the Cabinet has made a lot of mistakes in it work, but it has conducted more reforms and changes "than all previous governments in the past two decades." "We realize that some of these reforms are not popular now," he said.

He called on politicians to stop threatening government members with dismissal, recalling that the debate on the need to change the government has been going on since the day it was appointed.

"If any of our politicians believe that this government is not fulfilling the program and is not conducting the reform, it means that a vote of no confidence in the government can be submitted to the parliament and we can vote for the appropriate dismissal. But stop threatening us with dismissal. We have come here to work for real change in the country […] While fighting for power and lucrative positions, some politicians forgot that Ukraine is in a state of war … that we have not overcome the economic crisis and that people expect real changes in the country," Yatseniuk said.