Late development in the situation surrounding the new government in Kyiv:
The White House said U.S. Vice President Joe Biden congratulated Volodymyr Hroysman in a telephone call and urged the new premier and his team to "move forward quickly" with reforms in order to maintain international support for the government in Kyiv.
These include fulfilling Ukraine's International Monetary Fund (IMF) commitments, implementing the Minsk agreements aimed at regulating the conflict with Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, and confirming a new "reformist" prosecutor general, the White House said in a statement.
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An interesting development that perhaps has an added edge to it, considering the recent referendum in the Netherlands on the EU Association Agreement: