Borys Tarasyuk

Borys Tarasyuk

Borys Ivanovyč Tarasjuk ( Ukrainian Борис Іванович Тарасюк , scientific transliteration Borys Ivanovyč Tarasjuk ; born January 1, 1949 in Dzerzhynsk , Zhytomyr Oblast ) is a Ukrainian politician and former Foreign Minister of Ukraine .

He held the office for the first time from April 1998 to September 2000 under Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko . Under the presidency of Yushchenko, Tarasyuk has held the post since February 2005. In December 2006 he was voted out of office by parliament. This decision has been declared invalid by a court decision. President Yushchenko confirmed him in office by decree. Most MPs did not recognize him as a valid foreign minister until Yushchenko accepted his dismissal on January 30, 2007.

Life

Tarasyuk initially worked as a laboratory assistant at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute and completed his army service with the border troops of the USSR from 1968 to 1970 . In 1975 he graduated from Kiev State University , where he studied international relations and international law. After completing his studies, he was first an attaché until 1981, then a secretary at the Foreign Ministry of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic .

From 1981 to 1986 Borys Tarasjuk was first second, then first secretary at the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the UN in New York , 1986 to 1987 first secretary in the Department of International Organizations of the Foreign Ministry of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. Subsequently he was an instructor for external relations at the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Ukraine.

In the years after Ukraine's independence, Tarasjuk was brought in as an advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 1991/1992 he headed the Ministry's planning and analysis department. In March 1992 he became Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine and in June 1992 (until April 1995) head of the National Disarmament Commission; In addition, from 1993 to 1995 he headed the inter-ministerial commission for Ukraine's accession to the Council of Europe. He was one of the most important figures in the complicated negotiations on the nuclear and non-nuclear disarmament of Ukraine and the Black Sea Fleet .

At the end of 1994 Tarasyuk was reappointed Deputy Foreign Minister; he held the post until November 1995, before becoming Ambassador Extraordinary General Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in the Benelux countries (until April 1998). At the same time, Tarasjuk had been Head of Mission of Ukraine at NATO since October 1997 .

Before and at the beginning of the government under Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko , Borys Tarasjuk was Foreign Minister of Ukraine (1998–2000). His long-time predecessor Hennadij Udovenko had successfully run for parliament in 1998 and stepped down from his office. Tarasjuk's first trip abroad took him to Hungary and Poland .

Tarasjuk has served on the Board of Directors of the Institute for East-West Studies in New York City since 1993 ; until November 2000 he was also a member of the Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. In 2004 he was chairman of the European committee in the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada .

Tarasyuk is a holder of the Ukrainian Order of Merit (2nd and 3rd level). His diplomatic rank is that of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. In 1997 he was named Diplomat of the Year in his country and honors in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Lithuania, Portugal, France and Sweden.

On the list of the Nasha Ukrajina faction led by Viktor Yushchenko, he has been number 9 since April 2002. He is a member of the Ruch Movement , head of the National Movement of Ukraine and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Rescue Committee . During the Orange Revolution after the second round of the 2004 presidential elections , he was one of Yushchenko's closest advisors and collaborators. On February 4, 2005, Parliament confirmed the appointment of Tarasyuk as Foreign Minister in the government of Yulia Tymoshenko .

On December 1, 2006, Parliament voted 247 to 25 for the dismissal of Tarasjuk. An appeal was filed against this decision. On December 6, a Kiev court ruled that Tarasyuk's release by the Verkhovna Rada was invalid. The Yanukovych government did not recognize this decision and subsequently refused Tarasyuk participation in cabinet meetings. President Yushchenko repeatedly rejected Yanukovych's demand for Tarasyuk to be dismissed and confirmed him in office by decree. However, Tarasyuk resigned in January 2007. Yushchenko thereupon instructed Volodymyr Ohrysko on January 30th to temporarily take over the business of the foreign minister.

In 2015, Tarasjuk was chairman of the Ukrainian delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly .

Tarasyuk is married and has two daughters, a son and a grandson.

literature

• Kuchma uses all means to win the election . In: Die Welt , September 24, 2004; Interview with Borys Tarasyuk
• Boris Tarasjuk , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 47/2005 of November 26, 2005, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Borys Tarasjuk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Government does not recognize its own foreign minister . In: Der Tagesspiegel online , December 6, 2006; to exclude Tarasjuk from cabinet meetings
2. ↑ nrcu.gov.ua ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ukrajinske Radio website on refusal to fire Yushchenko Tarasyuk  
3. ↑ unian.net UNIAN news agency on Tarasjuk's resignation and the appointment of Ohrysko as interim foreign minister
4. ↑ Delegation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to PA EURONEST ( Memento of the original dated August 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 11 March 2015. Query date: May 26, 2015.