Volodymyr Krawez

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Володимир Олексійович Кравець
Transl. :	Volodymyr Oleksijovyč Kravec '
Transcr. :	Volodymyr Oleksijowytsch Krawez

Volodymyr Oleksijowytsch Krawez (born May 3, 1930 in Sharyn ( Ukrainian Шарин ), Uman district , Cherkassy Oblast , Soviet Union ; † July 22, 2011 ) was a Ukrainian politician and diplomat. Between 1984 and 1990 he was Foreign Minister of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic .

biography

Krawez studied first at the University of Kiev until 1953 and graduated in 1956 at the University of Kharkiv as a candidate of sciences . Subsequently he was assistant and lecturer at the chair for Marxism-Leninism at the University of Aerospace in Kharkiv and at the Agricultural Institute in Uman until 1961 . Between 1961 and 1965 Krawez was an advisor for science and culture to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine . From 1965 to 1967 he was a lecturer at the National University of Construction and Architecture in Kiev, and in 1967 he joined the Diplomatic Service of Ukraine.

From 1979 to 1984 Krawez was Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations . On December 29, 1984 Krawez succeeded Volodymyr Martynenko as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic and retired from this office on July 27, 1990. His successor was Anatoly Slenko , who became the first foreign minister of sovereign Ukraine after Ukraine gained state independence in July 1991. Krawez spent his retirement in Kiev. He was buried in the Kiev Baikowe Cemetery (section number 52a).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Foreign Minister on rulers.org , accessed March 10, 2015
2. ↑ 40 years of the Ukrainian Mission to the UN , accessed on March 10, 2015
3. ^ Krawez biography , accessed on March 10, 2015
4. ↑ [1] , accessed on March 10, 2015