Borys Tarasyuk

Borys Tarasyuk
Борис Тарасюк
Tarasyuk in 2004
Minister for Foreign Affairs
In office
17 April 1998 – 29 September 2000
Preceded byHennadiy Udovenko
Succeeded byAnatoliy Zlenko
In office
4 February 2005 – 30 January 2007
Preceded byKostiantyn Hryshchenko
Succeeded byVolodymyr Ohryzko
Personal details
Born
Borys Ivanovych Tarasyuk

(1949-01-01) 1 January 1949 (age 75)
Dzerzhynsk, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyBatkivshchina (2013–)
People's Movement of Ukraine (former Chairman)

Borys Ivanovych Tarasyuk (Ukrainian: Борис Іванович Тарасюк; born 1 January 1949) is a Ukrainian politician who twice served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and a former MP who is since December 2019 Ukraine's permanent representative to the Council of Europe.[1]

Tarasyuk studied international relations and international law at National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, and graduated in 1975. Besides Ukrainian, he is fluent in English, French and Russian. As of 2012, Tarasyuk is a sitting member of the International Honorary Council[2] of the European Academy of Diplomacy. He is a Senior Network Member at the European Leadership Network (ELN).[3]

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  2. ^ "Europejska Akademia Dyplomacji :: European Academy of Diplomacy :: Diplomats.pl :: DYPLOMACJA - Boris Tarasyuk". Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Senior Network". www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org. Retrieved 21 September 2020.