Kostyantyn Hryshchenko

Kostyantyn Hryschtschenko in January 2012

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Костянтин Іванович Грищенко
Transl. :	Kostjantyn Ivanovyč Hryščenko
Transcr. :	Kostyantyn Ivanovych Hryschtschenko

Kostjantyn Ivanovich Hryschtschenko (born October 28, 1953 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine from March 11, 2010 to December 24, 2012 .

Kostyantyn Hryschtschenko studied at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations . After completing his studies in 1976, he worked in the United Nations Secretariat in New York . In 1981 he returned to Moscow and worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. Shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union , he moved to the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine in Kiev. From 1993 he headed the arms and disarmament control department and was deputy foreign minister from 1995. From 1998 he worked as a representative of Ukraine abroad, first as ambassador to the Benelux countries and from 1999 to the United Nations. From 2000 he was ambassador of Ukraine in Washington . In 2003 he returned to Kiev, where he was appointed Foreign Minister in the first Yanukovych cabinet on September 2 . After the change of power in Ukraine in 2005 he had to hand over his office to Borys Tarasjuk . From June 2008 he was the Ukrainian ambassador in Moscow. After the 2010 presidential election , he was again foreign minister in the newly formed government under Prime Minister Mykola Azarov . After the parliamentary elections in October 2012 and the subsequent reshuffle of the government , Hryschtschenko was appointed Vice Prime Minister, while Leonid Koschara succeeded him in the Foreign Minister's Office.

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