Minister of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine)
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Ukrainian: Міністр закордонних справ) is Ukraine's head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which is in charge of a diplomatic corps and realization of the state foreign policy. The Minister of Foreign Affairs is appointed by the President.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Міністр закордонних справ України | |
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Appointer | President of Ukraine |
Term length | Duration of the presidential term (five years) or less due to earlier resignation or dismissal by the President |
Inaugural holder | Anatoliy Zlenko |
Formation | August 24, 1991 |
Succession | First deputy minister |
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Since Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, there have been 13 Ministers. Leonid Kozhara, under President Yanukovich, has been heading the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2013.
The current foreign minister is Dmytro Kuleba (since 4 March 2020).
List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs
Soviet Ukraine
No. | Portrait | Name | Took Office | Left Office | First Secretary | |
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unknown | June 17, 1953 | May 11, 1954 | Alexei Kirichenko | |
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Luka Palamarchuk | May 11, 1954 | August 13, 1965 | Alexei Kirichenko | |
Nikolai Podgorny | ||||||
Petro Shelest | ||||||
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Anatoliy Kysil | August 13, 1965 | March 16, 1966 | Petro Shelest | |
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Dmytro Bilokolos | March 16, 1966 | June 11, 1970 | Petro Shelest | |
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unknown | June 11, 1970 | August 5, 1970 | ||
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Georgiy Shevel | August 5, 1970 | November 18, 1980 | Petro Shelest | |
Volodymyr Shcherbytsky | ||||||
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Volodymyr Martynenko | November 18, 1980 | December 28, 1984 | Volodymyr Shcherbytsky | |
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Volodymyr Kravets | December 29, 1984 | July 27, 1990 | Volodymyr Shcherbytsky | |
Volodymyr Ivashko | ||||||
Stanislav Hurenko | ||||||
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Anatoliy Zlenko | July 27, 1990 | August 24, 1991 | Stanislav Hurenko | |
Ministers after Independence
No. | Portrait | Name | Took Office | Left Office | President(s) | |
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Anatoliy Zlenko | August 24, 1991 | August 25, 1994 | Leonid Kravchuk | |
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Hennadiy Udovenko | August 25, 1994 | September 16, 1994 | Leonid Kuchma | |
2 | September 16, 1994 | April 17, 1998 | ||||
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Borys Tarasiuk | April 17, 1998 | September 29, 2000 | ||
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Oleksandr Chalyi | September 29, 2000 | October 2, 2000 | ||
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Anatoliy Zlenko | October 2, 2000 | September 2, 2003 | ||
5 | Kostyantyn Gryshchenko | September 2, 2003 | February 3, 2005 | |||
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Borys Tarasiuk | February 4, 2005 | December 1, 2006 | Viktor Yushchenko | |
- | Anton Buteyko | December 1, 2006 | December 5, 2006 | |||
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Borys Tarasiuk | December 5, 2006 | January 30, 2007 | ||
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Volodymyr Ohryzko | January 31, 2007 | March 21, 2007 | ||
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Arseniy Yatseniuk | March 21, 2007 | December 18, 2007 | ||
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Volodymyr Ohryzko | December 18, 2007 | March 3, 2009 | ||
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Volodymyr Khandohiy | March 3, 2009 | October 9, 2009 | ||
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Petro Poroshenko | October 9, 2009 | March 11, 2010 | ||
10 | Kostyantyn Gryshchenko | March 11, 2010 | December 24, 2012 | Viktor Yanukovych | ||
11 | Leonid Kozhara | December 24, 2012 | February 23, 2014 | |||
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Andrii Deshchytsia | February 27, 2014 | June 19, 2014 | Oleksandr Turchynov | |
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Pavlo Klimkin | June 19, 2014 | August 29, 2019 | Petro Poroshenko | |
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Vadym Prystaiko | August 29, 2019 | Volodymyr Zelensky |
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