Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Міністерство закордонних справ України
The official ministerial seal of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Agency overview
Preceding agency	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Headquarters	No.3 Mykhailiv Square, Kiev, Ukraine
Employees	2,000+[1]
Agency executive	Kostyantyn Hryshchenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs[2]
Parent agency	Cabinet of Ministers
Website
www.mfa.gov.ua

The main building of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in historic central Kiev

The current Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, built as part of a government complex, to be located on the territory of the former St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery. Only one of the buildings was constructed (pictured).

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство закордонних справ України) is the Ukrainian government ministry which oversees the foreign relations of Ukraine.

Historical overlook

Originally the Ministry was established as the General Secretariat of Nationalities as part of the General Secretariat of Ukraine and was headed by the federalist Serhiy Yefremov. Due to the Soviet intervention the office was reformed into a ministry on December 22, 1917. About the same time another government was formed, the Soviet, that proclaimed the Ukrainian government to be counter-revolutionary. The Ukrainian Soviet government also reorganized its office on March 1, 1918. In 1923 the office was liquidated by the government of Soviet Union and reinstated in 1944, twenty years later. The first Soviet representatives were not much of a notice until the appointment of the Bulgarian native Christian Rakovsky in 1919.

General overview

The ministry is located in Ukraine's capital Kiev in the city's historic uppertown district, located in close proximity to the recently-rebuilt St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery. The building of the ministry is also located on the Mykhailiv Square, named for the monastery and next to the park "Volodymyr's Mount".

The nomination of the Foreign Minister is done by the President of Ukraine, unlike most nominations of Cabinet Minister which are done by the Prime Minister of Ukraine. All minister nominations have to be approved by the Ukrainian Parliament.^[3] Kostyantyn Hryshchenko is the current Minister.^[2]

Office of National Commission of Ukraine For UNESCO

Ukraine is the UNESCO member since May 12, 1954.^[4] From December 1962 Ukraine had established its permanent representation in the organization currently served by the Ambassador of Ukraine to France. The National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO was created as part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Presidential decree #212/1996 on March 26, 1996. By the Presidential decree #32/2011 issued on January 14, 2011^[5] the Head of the National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO was appointed Ruslan Mykhailovych Demchenko, the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ruslan Demchenko changed on that post V.Khandohiy.

The permanent representative of Ukraine to UNESCO is the Ambassador to France Kostyantyn Volodymyrovych Tymoshenko.^[6]

Ukraine has about 14 academic departments that cooperate with the mission of UNESCO^[7] as well as 63 schools associated with the organization.^[8]

List of Ministers

Officials before 1924

General Secretary of Nationalities (June 28 - December 22, 1917)

• Serhiy Yefremov (Socialist-Federalist) (June 28 - July 17, 1917)
• Oleksandr Shulhin (Socialist-Federalist) (July 17 - December 22, 1917)

People's Secretary of Nationalities (December 14, 1917 - March 1, 1918)

• Sergei Bakinsky (Bolshevik) (December 14, 1917 - March 1, 1918)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (December 22, 1917 - May 1920)

• Oleksandr Shulhin (Socialist-Federalist) (December 22, 1917 - January 24, 1918)
• Vsevolod Holubovych (Socialist-Revolutionary) (January 24 - March 3, 1918)
• Mykola Liubynsky (Socialist-Revolutionary) (March 3 - April 28, 1918)
• Mykola Vasylenko (Association of Ukrainian Progressionists) (April 30 - May 20, 1918)
• Dmytro Doroshenko (Socialist-Federalist) (May 20 - November 14, 1918)
• Georgiy Afanasyev (November 14 - December 14, 1918)
• Volodymyr Chekhivsky (Ukrainian Menshevik) (December 26, 1918 - February 11, 1919)
• Kostiantyn Matsiyevych (February 13 - March 1919)
• Volodymyr Temnytsky (Social Democrat) (April - August 1919)
• Andriy Livytskyi (Ukrainian Menshevik) (August 1919 - May 1920)

People's Secretaries of Foreign Affairs (March 1, 1918 - July 1923)

• Volodymyr Zatonsky (Bolshevik) (March 1–4, 1918)
• Mykola Skrypnyk (Bolshevik) (March 8 - April 18, 1918)
• Christian Rakovsky (Bolshevik) (January - July 1919)
• Christian Rakovsky (Bolshevik) (March 1920 - July 1923)

State Secretaries of Foreign Affairs of Western Ukraine (November 1918 - February 1923)

• Vasyl Paneiko (National Democrat) (November 1918 - January 1919)
• Lonhyn Tsehelsky (National Democrat) (January - February 1919)
• Mykhailo Lozynsky (March - April 1919)
• Stepan Vytvytskyi (National Democrat) (April 1919 - February 1920)
• Kost Levytsky (National Democrat) (1920 - February 1923)

Officials after the World War II

People's Commissars of Foreign Affairs

• Oleksandr Korniychuk (February - July 1944)
• Dmitry Manuilsky (July 1944 - March 15, 1946)

Ministers of Foreign Affairs

• Dmitry Manuilsky (March 15, 1946–1952)
• Anatoliy Baranovsky (June 10, 1952 - June 17, 1953)
  • Luka Palamarchuk (June 17, 1953 - May 11, 1954)
• Luka Palamarchuk (May 11, 1954 - August 13, 1965)
• Dmytro Bilokolos (March 16, 1966 - June 11, 1970)
• Heorhiy Shevel (August 10, 1970 - November 18, 1980)
• Volodymyr Martynenko (November 18, 1980 - December 28, 1984)
• Volodymyr Kravets (diplomat) (December 28, 1984 - July 27, 1990)
• Anatoliy Zlenko (July 27, 1990 - August 24, 1991)

Ministers of Foreign Affairs (post-Soviet)

• Anatoliy Zlenko (August 24, 1991 - August 25, 1994)
  • Hennadiy Udovenko (August 25, 1994 - September 16, 1994)
• Hennadiy Udovenko (September 16, 1994 - April 17, 1998)
• Borys Tarasiuk (April 17, 1998 - September 29, 2000)
• Anatoliy Zlenko (October 2, 2000 - September 2, 2003)
• Kostyantyn Hryshchenko (September 2, 2003 - February 3, 2005)
• Borys Tarasiuk (February 4, 2005 - December 1, 2006)
  • Borys Tarasiuk (December 5, 2006 - January 30, 2007)
  • Volodymyr Ohryzko (January 31, 2007 - March 21, 2007)
• Arseniy Yatseniuk (March 21, 2007 - December 18, 2007)
• Volodymyr Ohryzko (December 18, 2007 - March 3, 2009)
• Petro Poroshenko (October 9, 2009 - March 11, 2010)
• Kostyantyn Hryshchenko (March 11, 2010 - present)

See also

• Diplomatic missions of Ukraine
• List of national leaders of Ukraine

References

1. ^ "History of the MFA" (in Ukrainian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. http://www.mfa.gov.ua/mfa/ua/413.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-10. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Rada appoints Hryshchenko Ukraine's foreign minister, Unian-Ukraine (October 9, 2009)
3. ^ Rada appoints Poroshenko Ukraine's foreign minister, Kyiv Post (October 9, 2009)
4. ^ Співпраця України та ЮНЕСКО
5. ^ УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ № 32/2011
6. ^ Постійне Представництво України при ЮНЕСКО
7. ^ List of departments associated with UNESCO
8. ^ List of schools associated with UNESCO

External links

• (English) (Ukrainian) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine