Former First Deputy Interior Minister Eka Zguladze has said she will continue to participate in Ukrainian reforms as the head of an advisory group to the Ukrainian interior minister.

"I am staying on the team and, having accepted the minister's proposal. I will be in charge of a specially created team of advisors. There are more challenges now because the [law-enforcement] reforms. I'll continue working with the Ukrainians and my Ukrainian friends, resisting corruption and lawlessness. Our team won't just continue with police reform, but we'll also continue our reforms in other areas, focusing on the stability what has been achieved," Zguladze said in a post on the official Interior Ministry website on Wednesday.

Zguladze also said that in December last year, 12 months after her appointment, the term of her agreement with the president and the minister expired.

"I did not leave in December so I could endure a difficult transition period from the old police force to the new police …. However, even now, with the new Cabinet, I can't forget this experience we have had together," Zguladze said.

"If the court system, prosecutor's offices and customs (service) et cetera aren't reformed, we won't lose the police, we will lose the chance for a new Ukraine. But if we succeed, then Ukraine will change not only its destiny, but the future of Europe as well. I do believe in that," Zguladze said.

The Cabinet at a meeting on Wednesday accepted Zguladze's resignation from the post of the first deputy interior minister. At the same time, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said that Zguladze accepted his proposal to continue her work of the Interior Ministry by leading a group of special advisers.

Zguladze in 2005 was appointed as Deputy Interior Minister of Georgia, a post she held until 2012.