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Minister of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine)

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Міністр закордонних справ України
Incumbent
Andrii Sybiha
since 5 September 2024
AppointerPresident of Ukraine
Term lengthNo fixed term
Inaugural holderAnatoliy Zlenko
Formation24 August 1991
SuccessionFirst deputy minister

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.

List of ministers of foreign affairs

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Ukrainian People's Republic

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No. Portrait Name Took office Left office President of Central Rada
1 Oleksander Shulhyn 9 January 1918 24 January 1918 Mykhailo Hrushevskyi
2 Vsevolod Holubovych 30 January 1918 3 March 1918
3 Mykola Liubynskyi 3 March 1918 28 April 1918

Ukrainian State

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No. Portrait Name Took office Left office Hetman
- Mykola Vasylenko 30 April 1918 20 May 1918 (acting) Pavlo Skoropadskyi
1 Dmytro Doroshenko 20 May 1918 14 November 1918
2 Georgiy Afanasyev 14 November 1918 14 December 1918

Ukrainian People's Republic (restored)

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No. Portrait Name Took office Left office Head of Directorate
1 Volodymyr Chekhivskyi 26 December 1918 11 February 1919 Volodymyr Vynnychenko
2 Kostiantyn Matsiyevych 13 February 1919 9 April 1919 Symon Petliura
3 Volodymyr Temnytskyi 9 April 1919 27 August 1919
- Andriy Livytskyi 29 August 1919 26 May 1920 (acting)
4 Andriy Nikovskyi 26 May 1920 10 November 1920

Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (people's commissars)

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No. Portrait Name Took office Left office First Secretary
- Stepan Vlasenko 28 November 1918 January 1919 (Head of the International department of the Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine) Emanuel Kviring
1 Christian Rakovsky 29 January 1919 July 1919 Georgy Pyatakov
2 unknown July 1919 21 March 1920 Stanislav Kosior
3 Christian Rakovsky 21 March 1920 July 1923

Ukrainian National Government (1941)

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No. Portrait Name Took office Left office Head of Ukrainian National Government
- Volodymyr Stakhiv 30 June 1941 12 July 1941 Yaroslav Stetsko

Soviet Ukraine (postwar)

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No. Portrait Name Took office Left office First Secretary
1 Oleksandr Korniychuk 5 February 1944 12 July 1944 (people's commissar) Nikita Khrushchev
2 Dmitry Manuilsky 12 July 1944 (befor 15 March 1946 - people's commissar) 10 June 1952
3 Anatoliy Baranovsky 10 June 1952 10 May 1954 Leonid Melnikov
4 Luka Palamarchuk 11 May 1954 13 August 1965 Alexei Kirichenko
Nikolai Podgorny
Petro Shelest
- Anatoliy Kysil 13 August 1965 16 March 1966
5 Dmytro Bilokolos 16 March 1966 11 June 1970
- unknown 11 June 1970 5 August 1970
6 Georgiy Shevel 5 August 1970 18 November 1980
Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
7 Volodymyr Martynenko 18 November 1980 28 December 1984
8 Volodymyr Kravets 29 December 1984 27 July 1990
Volodymyr Ivashko
Stanislav Hurenko
9 Anatoliy Zlenko 27 July 1990 24 August 1991 Stanislav Hurenko

Ministers after independence

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No. Portrait Name Took office Left office President(s)
1 Anatoliy Zlenko 24 August 1991 25 August 1994 Leonid Kravchuk
- Hennadiy Udovenko 25 August 1994 16 September 1994 Leonid Kuchma
2 16 September 1994 17 April 1998
3 Borys Tarasiuk 17 April 1998 29 September 2000
- Oleksandr Chalyi 29 September 2000 2 October 2000
4 Anatoliy Zlenko 2 October 2000 2 September 2003
5 Kostyantyn Gryshchenko 2 September 2003 3 February 2005
6 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
7 Arseniy Yatseniuk 21 March 2007 18 December 2007
8 Volodymyr Ohryzko 18 December 2007 3 March 2009
- Volodymyr Khandohiy 3 March 2009 9 October 2009
9 Petro Poroshenko 9 October 2009 11 March 2010
10 Kostyantyn Gryshchenko 11 March 2010 24 December 2012 Viktor Yanukovych
11 Leonid Kozhara 24 December 2012 23 February 2014
- Andrii Deshchytsia 27 February 2014 19 June 2014 Oleksandr Turchynov
12 Pavlo Klimkin 19 June 2014 29 August 2019 Petro Poroshenko
13 Vadym Prystaiko 29 August 2019 4 March 2020 Volodymyr Zelenskyy
14 Dmytro Kuleba 4 March 2020 5 September 2024
15 Andrii Sybiha 5 September 2024 incumbent

References

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