Minister of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine)

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Міністр закордонних справ України

Incumbent Pavlo Klimkin since December 24, 2012
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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Main article: Ministry 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.

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.

Actual minister, appointed by President Poroshenko is Pavlo Klimkin (from June 19, 2014)

List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs

Soviet Ukraine

No.	Name	Took Office	Left Office
-	unknown	June 17, 1953	May 11, 1954	Alexei Kirichenko
1	Luka Palamarchuk	May 11, 1954	August 13, 1965	Alexei Kirichenko
				Nikolai Podgorny
				Petro Shelest
-	Anatoliy Kysil	August 13, 1965	March 16, 1966	Petro Shelest
2	Dmytro Bilokolos	March 16, 1966	June 11, 1970	Petro Shelest
-	unknown	June 11, 1970	August 5, 1970	Petro Shelest
3	Georgiy Shevel	August 5, 1970	November 18, 1980	Petro Shelest
3	Georgiy Shevel	August 5, 1970	November 18, 1980	Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
4	Volodymyr Martynenko	November 18, 1980	December 28, 1984	Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
5	Volodymyr Kravets	December 29, 1984	July 27, 1990	Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
				Volodymyr Ivashko
				Stanislav Hurenko
6	Anatoliy Zlenko	July 27, 1990	August 24, 1991	Stanislav Hurenko

Ministers after Independence

No.	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	Anatoliy Zlenko	August 24, 1991	August 25, 1994	Leonid Kravchuk
-	Hennadiy Udovenko	August 25, 1994	September 16, 1994	Leonid Kuchma
2	Hennadiy Udovenko	September 16, 1994	April 17, 1998
3	Borys Tarasiuk	April 17, 1998	September 29, 2000
-	Oleksandr Chalyi	September 29, 2000	October 2, 2000
4	Anatoliy Zlenko	October 2, 2000	September 2, 2003
5	Kostyantyn Gryshchenko	September 2, 2003	February 3, 2005
6	Borys Tarasiuk	February 4, 2005	December 1, 2006	Viktor Yushchenko
-	Anton Buteyko	December 1, 2006	December 5, 2006
-	Borys Tarasiuk	December 5, 2006	January 30, 2007
-	Volodymyr Ohryzko	January 31, 2007	March 21, 2007
7	Arseniy Yatseniuk	March 21, 2007	December 18, 2007
8	Volodymyr Ohryzko	December 18, 2007	March 3, 2009
-	Volodymyr Khandohiy	March 3, 2009	October 9, 2009
9	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	Viktor Yanukovych
-	Andrii Deshchytsia	February 27, 2014	June 19, 2014	Oleksandr Turchynov
12	Pavlo Klimkin	June 19, 2014		Petro Poroshenko

References

National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Permanent members	President (chair) Secretary* Prime Minister Minister of Defence Head of the Security Service Minister of Internal Affairs Minister of Foreign Affairs

Invited members	Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Prosecutor General Chairman of the National Bank Minister of Justice Minister of Finance Chief of the Foreign Intelligence Service Head of the Presidential Administration Chief of the General Staff

Secretaries	Volodymyr Horbulin Yevhen Marchuk Volodymyr Radchenko Petro Poroshenko Anatoliy Kinakh Volodymyr Horbulin (acting) Vitaliy Haiduk Ivan Plyushch Raisa Bogatyrova Andriy Klyuyev Andriy Parubiy Oleksandr Turchynov

Secretary performs special functions and is not official member

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