Post: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Body: | Ukraine |
Native Name: | Міністр закордонних справ України |
Insignia: | Logo of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine with abbreviation in English.svg |
Insigniasize: | 200px |
Termlength: | No fixed term |
Incumbent: | Dmytro Kuleba |
Incumbentsince: | 4 March 2020 |
Appointer: | President of Ukraine |
Formation: | 24 August 1991 |
Succession: | First deputy minister |
Inaugural: | Anatoliy Zlenko |
The minister of foreign affairs (Ukrainian: Міністр закордонних справ) is the foreign minister of Ukraine and head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is in charge of the diplomatic corps and realization of the foreign policy of Ukraine. The minister of foreign affairs is appointed by the president.
Since Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the nation has had 14 foreign ministers (not including acting ones). During the Ukrainian chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2013, the Ukrainian foreign minister at that time (Leonid Kozhara) served as Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE.
The current foreign minister is Dmytro Kuleba, who took office on 4 March 2020.[1]
No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | First Secretary | |
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unknown | 17 June 1953 | 11 May 1954 | Alexei Kirichenko | |||
Luka Palamarchuk | 11 May 1954 | 13 August 1965 | Alexei Kirichenko | |||
Nikolai Podgorny | ||||||
Petro Shelest | ||||||
Anatoliy Kysil | 13 August 1965 | 16 March 1966 | Petro Shelest | |||
Dmytro Bilokolos | 16 March 1966 | 11 June 1970 | Petro Shelest | |||
unknown | 11 June 1970 | 5 August 1970 | ||||
Georgiy Shevel | 5 August 1970 | 18 November 1980 | Petro Shelest | |||
Volodymyr Shcherbytsky | ||||||
Volodymyr Martynenko | 18 November 1980 | 28 December 1984 | Volodymyr Shcherbytsky | |||
Volodymyr Kravets | 29 December 1984 | 27 July 1990 | Volodymyr Shcherbytsky | |||
Volodymyr Ivashko | ||||||
Stanislav Hurenko | ||||||
Anatoliy Zlenko | 27 July 1990 | 24 August 1991 | Stanislav Hurenko | |||
No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | President(s) | |
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Anatoliy Zlenko | 24 August 1991 | 25 August 1994 | Leonid Kravchuk | |||
25 August 1994 | 16 September 1994 | Leonid Kuchma | ||||
16 September 1994 | 17 April 1998 | |||||
Borys Tarasiuk | 17 April 1998 | 29 September 2000 | ||||
Oleksandr Chalyi | 29 September 2000 | 2 October 2000 | ||||
Anatoliy Zlenko | 2 October 2000 | 2 September 2003 | ||||
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko | 2 September 2003 | 3 February 2005 | ||||
Borys Tarasiuk | 4 February 2005 | 1 December 2006 | Viktor Yushchenko | |||
Anton Buteyko | 1 December 2006 | 5 December 2006 | ||||
Borys Tarasiuk | 5 December 2006 | 30 January 2007 | ||||
Volodymyr Ohryzko | 31 January 2007 | 21 March 2007 | ||||
Arseniy Yatseniuk | 21 March 2007 | 18 December 2007 | ||||
Volodymyr Ohryzko | 18 December 2007 | 3 March 2009 | ||||
Volodymyr Khandohiy | 3 March 2009 | 9 October 2009 | ||||
Petro Poroshenko | 9 October 2009 | 11 March 2010 | ||||
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko | 11 March 2010 | 24 December 2012 | Viktor Yanukovych | |||
Leonid Kozhara | 24 December 2012 | 23 February 2014 | ||||
Andrii Deshchytsia | 27 February 2014 | 19 June 2014 | Oleksandr Turchynov | |||
Pavlo Klimkin | 19 June 2014 | 29 August 2019 | Petro Poroshenko | |||
Vadym Prystaiko | 29 August 2019 | 4 March 2020 | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | |||
Dmytro Kuleba | 4 March 2020 | incumbent |