BRUSSELS, July 13 -- The European Union is not asking for a say in who replaces Yulia Svyrydenko as Ukraine's prime minister, and it is not treating the announcement as a crisis.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Monday ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels that forming a government was Ukraine's internal political business and that the bloc stood ready to work with whoever came to power. "Forming a government is everybody's internal political business," Kallas said, answering a question about Svyrydenko's resignation. "For us, of course, it's important that we have our interlocutors and we can continue the work. For us, it's also important that the work with the reforms continues."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...