Natalija Sarudna

Natalija Mykolajiwna Sarudna ( Ukrainian Наталія Миколаївна Зарудна ; born February 15, 1950 in Chernivtsi ) is a Ukrainian diplomat .

Life

She studied philology at the University of Kiev and then taught English and Spanish as a teacher . From September 1973 to January 1984 she worked in Kiev for the Soviet travel company Intourist as a tour guide and interpreter. Until February 1992 she worked for the government of the USSR as a translator and tour guide for English-speaking groups.

After Ukrainian independence was regained, she worked from February 1992 as second and then first secretary in the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This was followed by the functions of deputy head of department, then head of department and finally deputy head of the information department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From April 1996 to November 1999 she was an embassy counselor and then envoy to the Ukrainian embassy in the USA in Washington, DC During this time, she was also Deputy Permanent Observer of Ukraine at the Organization of American States . She then returned to Kiev and was director of the fourth department of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry for two months until January 2000. Until June 2001, Zarudna worked as the press spokeswoman for the Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko . From December 2001 to September 2002 she headed the Department for Cultural and Humanitarian Cooperation of the Ministry. She then became Deputy State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from September 2003 Ambassador et large to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From December 2001 to June 2004 she was also Deputy Chairwoman of the National UNESCO Commission of Ukraine and Deputy of the Commissioner of Ukraine in the UNESCO Executive Council.

In December 2004 she went to Denmark as the Ukrainian ambassador . On September 4th, 2008, she moved to Germany as ambassador to the Ukrainian Embassy in Berlin . In 2012 she took over the management of the OSCE Center in Astana (Nur-Sultan since 2019) in Kazakhstan .

In addition to Russian , English and Spanish, she also speaks French . She is married and has two sons.

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SURNAME	Sarudna, Natalija
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Зарудна, Наталія Миколаївна (Ukrainian); Sarudna, Natalija Mykolajiwna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ukrainian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	February 15, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chernivtsi , Ukrainian SSR