Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has made changes in the composition of the National Reforms Council.

Corresponding decree No. 173/2016 has been published on the president's official website.

According to the decree, first deputy head of presidential administration Vitaliy Kovalchuk was made a member of the National Reforms Council, who will "participate in its work on all matters."

Slovak minister of finance in 2002-2006 and in 2010-2012 Ivan Miklos and advisor to the President of Ukraine, his representative in the Cabinet of Ministers, former deputy premier of Poland Leszek Balcerowicz цуку appointed members of the National Reform Council, who are invited to consider certain issues.

As reported, on April 22 Balcerowicz was appointed an adviser to the Ukrainian president, his representative in the Cabinet of Ministers, and a co-chairman of a group of strategic advisers on reform.