Vadym Prystajko

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vadym Prystajko

Wadym Volodymyrowytsch Prystajko ( Ukrainian Вадим Володимирович Пристайко ; scientific transliteration Vadym Volodymyrovyč Prystajko ; born February 20, 1970 in Odessa , Ukrainian SSR ; Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician . In 2014 Prystajko became Deputy Foreign Minister and between August 29, 2019 and March 4, 2020 he was Foreign Minister of Ukraine. After a cabinet reshuffle on March 4, 2020, he became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for European Integration.

Prystajko (left) at a meeting of the members of the National Security and Defense Council on energy security

Life

In 1994 he graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute and in 1998 the Ukrainian Academy of Foreign Trade with a master’s degree. Before his civil service career, he worked from 1993 to 1994 as a co-founder of the information society "Electronic News".

His civil service career began in 1994 in the Ministry of Foreign Economics and Trade of Ukraine, in the Office for Trade and Economic Relations with African Countries, Asia and the Pacific.

He moved to the Foreign Ministry in 1997 and became Deputy Head of the Asia and Pacific Division of the Fifth Territorial Office.

From 2000 to 2001 he was Consul of the Consulate General of Ukraine in Sydney .

From 2001 to 2002 he worked as chief advisor to the Foreign Policy Department in the Presidential Administration of President Kuchma, and from 2002 to 2006 he was political advisor and charge d'affaires on Ukraine affairs in Canada.

Between 2007 and 2009, Prystajko was Deputy Director of the NATO Department of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry before his career took him back to North America in 2009 . First as Deputy Head of the Embassy of Ukraine in the USA and from 2012 as Ambassador of Ukraine in Canada .

In 2014 he was promoted to Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine.

At the end of March 2017, Prime Minister Hroysman's cabinet dismissed the deputy foreign minister in order to promote him to a new post. President Petro Poroshenko appointed Prystajko to head the Ukrainian mission to NATO the following July.

On May 22, 2019, Prystajko was appointed by a decree by the newly elected President Volodymyr Zelenskyi as deputy chairman of the presidential administration .

After the resignation of Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin before the inauguration of Zelenskyj, the new President proposed Prystajko as the new Foreign Minister of Ukraine to the Ukrainian parliament on June 11, 2019 . On September 6, 2019, he also became a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine . After a cabinet reshuffle on March 4, 2020, he became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for European Integration in the Schmyhal Cabinet .

In addition to Ukrainian, Prystajko speaks Russian and English. He is married and has two sons.

Web links

Commons : Wadym Prystajko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elected Prime Minister, President of Parliament and Minister of Defense in Ukraine on 1sn.ru ; accessed on August 30, 2019 (Russian)
  2. ↑ Кабмін звільнив першого заступника міністра закордонних справ Пристайка. Retrieved June 13, 2019 (Ukrainian).
  3. ↑ Президент призначив В.Пристайка головою місії України при НАТО. In: Українські Національні Новини news agency. July 7, 2017, Retrieved June 13, 2019 (Ukrainian).
  4. ↑ Пристайко назначен замглавы Администрации президента - указ. In: Novoe Vremja. Retrieved June 13, 2019 (Russian).
  5. ↑ Зеленский предлагает Раде назначить Пристайко вместо Климкина. In: Novoe Vremja. June 11, 2019, accessed June 13, 2019 (Russian).
  6. ↑ Presidential Decree No. 665/2019 of September 6, 2019 on the changes in the composition of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, on the website of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine; accessed on September 17, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  7. ↑ Schmyhal presented the composition of his cabinet at rbc.ua on March 4, 2020; accessed on March 4, 2020
  8. ↑ Пристайко Вадим Володимирович - заступник Міністра закордонних справ України - керівник апарат. In: Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. Retrieved June 13, 2019 (Ukrainian).
personal data
SURNAME Prystajko, Wadym
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prystajko, Vadym Volodymyrowytsch; Пристайко, Вадим Володимирович (Ukrainian); Prystajko, Vadym Volodymyrovyč (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th February 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa , Ukrainian SSR Soviet Union