Valentyn Symonenko

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Valentin Symonenko
Valentin Symonenko

Valentyn Symonenko (Ukrainian: Валентин Костянтинович Симоненко; b. July 4, 1940 in Odessa) is a Ukrainian statesman. Since late 1996 he has been chairman of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine.

In 1983-1992 he served as mayor of Odessa, then as the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, and for a short period in October of 1993, as the Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Symonenko has been elected to the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) for three sequential terms (11, 12(1), and 13(2) convocations).

In 1996 he was elected as the Chairman of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine. In 2003 he was re-elected for the second 7-year term. The Accounting Chamber executes control over revenues and expenditures of the State Budget of Ukraine on behalf of the Verkhovna Rada

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Preceded by
Vitold Fokin
Prime Minister of Ukraine
October 1992
Succeeded by
Leonid Kuchma