Minister of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine)
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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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The Minister 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's foreign policy. The Minister of Foreign Affairs is appointed by the President.
Since Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, there have been 13 foreign ministers. In 2013, Leonid Kozhara acted as Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe during the Ukrainian chairmanship of the OSCE.
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 | |
1 | ![]() |
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 | ||
3 | ![]() |
Georgiy Shevel | August 5, 1970 | November 18, 1980 | Petro Shelest | |
Volodymyr Shcherbytsky | ||||||
4 | ![]() |
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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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 | ||
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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 | March 4, 2020 | Volodymyr Zelensky | |
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Dmytro Kuleba | March 4, 2020 | incumbent |
References[]
Categories:
- Foreign ministers of Ukraine
- Lists of government ministers of Ukraine
- National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine