List of Foreign Ministers of Ukraine

The building of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry in Kiev

The list of Foreign Ministers of Ukraine includes the authorized representatives who have represented Ukraine in foreign affairs since 1917.

Ukrainian People's Republic

Secretary General for International Affairs Minister for Foreign Affairs
#	image	Surname	Taking office	End of office
1		Oleksandr Schulhyn	December 1917	January 24, 1918
2		Vsevolod Holubovych	January 30, 1918	March 3, 1918
3		Mykola Lyubynskyi	March 3, 1918	April 28, 1918

Hetmanate

Minister for Foreign Affairs
#	image	Surname	Taking office	End of office
1		Mykola Wassylenko	April 30, 1918	May 20, 1918
2		Dmytro Doroshenko	May 20, 1918	November 14, 1918
3		Heorhiy Afanasyev	November 14, 1918	December 14, 1918

Ukrainian People's Republic

Minister for Foreign Affairs
#	image	Surname	Taking office	End of office
1		Volodymyr Chekhivskyi	December 26, 1918	January 24, 1918
2		Kostyantyn Maziyevich	13th February	March 1919
3		Volodymyr Temnyzkyj	April 1919	August 1919
4th		Andrij Liwyzkyj	August 1919	May 1920

West Ukrainian People's Republic

Minister for Foreign Affairs
#	image	Surname	Taking office	End of office
1		Wassyl Panejko	November 11, 1918	January 1919
2		Lonhyn Zehelskyj	January 4, 1919	March 10, 1919
3		Mychajlo Losynskyj	March 10, 1919	April 17, 1919
4th		Stepan Wytvyzkyj	April 17, 1919	February 1920
5		Kost Lewyzkyj	1920	1923

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

People's Commissars for Foreign Affairs / Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
#	image	Surname	Taking office	End of office
1		Sergei Bakinski	December 14, 1917	March 1, 1918
2		Volodymyr Satonskyj	March 1, 1918	March 4, 1918
3		Mykola Skrypnyk	March 8, 1918	April 18, 1918
4th		Georgy Pyatakov	December 3, 1918	January 1919
5		Christian Rakowski	January 1919 March 1920	July 1919 July 1923
6th		Oleksandr Kornijchuk	February 1944	July 1944
7th		Dmitri Manuilski	1944	1952
8th		Anatoly Baranovskyi	June 10, 1952	June 17, 1953
9		Luka Palamarchuk	May 11, 1954	August 13, 1965
10		Anatolij Kysil  ( acting )	August 13, 1965	March 16, 1966
11		Dmytro Bilokolos	March 16, 1966	June 11, 1970
12		Heorhij Schewel	August 10, 1970	November 18, 1980
13		Volodymyr Martynenko	November 18, 1980	December 28, 1984
14th		Volodymyr Krawez	December 29, 1984	July 27, 1990
15th		Anatoly Slenko	July 27, 1990	August 25, 1994

Ukraine

Foreign minister
#	image	Surname	Taking office	End of office
1		Anatoly Slenko	July 27, 1990	August 25, 1994
2		Hennadij Udovenko	August 25, 1994	April 17, 1998
3		Borys Tarasyuk	April 17, 1998	September 29, 2000
4th		Anatoly Slenko	October 2, 2000	September 2, 2003
5		Kostyantyn Hryshchenko	September 2, 2003	February 3, 2005
6th		Borys Tarasyuk	February 4, 2005	January 30, 2007
7th		Volodymyr Ohrysko  (acting)	January 30, 2007	March 21, 2007
8th		Arseniy Yatsenyuk	March 21, 2007	4th December 2007
9		Volodymyr Ohrysko	December 18, 2007	March 3, 2009
10		Volodymyr Chandohij  (acting)	March 3, 2009	October 9, 2009
11		Petro Poroshenko	October 9, 2009	March 11, 2010
12		Kostyantyn Hryshchenko	March 11, 2010	December 24, 2012
13		Leonid Koschara	December 24, 2012	February 23, 2014
14th		Andrij Deschtschyzja (acting)	February 2014	June 2014
15th		Pavlo Klimkin	19th June 2014	29th August 2019
16		Vadym Prystajko	29th August 2019	4th March 2020
17th		Dmytro Kuleba	4th March 2020	officiating

See also

• List of heads of state of Ukraine
• List of Prime Ministers of Ukraine
• List of Interior Ministers of Ukraine

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Institute for the National Memory of Ukraine - The Foreign Ministers of Ukraine , accessed on December 27, 2016 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ History and tradition of Ukraine's foreign services on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine , accessed on March 10, 2015
3. ↑ Decree of the Workers 'and Peasants' Government of Ukraine December 3, 1918 "On the Foreign Department" (Law of Ukraine, 1919, No. 1, p. 8)