Minister of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine)

The Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Ukrainian: Міністр закордонних справ) is Ukraine's head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which is in charge of a diplomatic corps and realization of the state foreign policy. The Minister of Foreign Affairs is appointed by the President.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Міністр закордонних справ України
Incumbent Dmytro Kuleba since 4 March 2020
Appointer	President of Ukraine
Term length	Duration of the presidential term (five years) or less due to earlier resignation or dismissal by the President
Inaugural holder	Anatoliy Zlenko
Formation	August 24, 1991
Succession	First deputy minister

Since Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, there have been 13 Ministers. Leonid Kozhara, under President Yanukovich, has been heading the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2013.

The current foreign minister is Dmytro Kuleba (since 4 March 2020).

List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs

Soviet Ukraine

No.	Portrait	Name	Took Office	Left Office	First Secretary
-		unknown	June 17, 1953	May 11, 1954		Alexei Kirichenko
1		Luka Palamarchuk	May 11, 1954	August 13, 1965		Alexei Kirichenko
						Nikolai Podgorny
						Petro Shelest
-		Anatoliy Kysil	August 13, 1965	March 16, 1966		Petro Shelest
2		Dmytro Bilokolos	March 16, 1966	June 11, 1970		Petro Shelest
-		unknown	June 11, 1970	August 5, 1970
3		Georgiy Shevel	August 5, 1970	November 18, 1980		Petro Shelest
						Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
4		Volodymyr Martynenko	November 18, 1980	December 28, 1984		Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
5		Volodymyr Kravets	December 29, 1984	July 27, 1990		Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
						Volodymyr Ivashko
						Stanislav Hurenko
6		Anatoliy Zlenko	July 27, 1990	August 24, 1991		Stanislav Hurenko

Ministers after Independence

No.	Portrait	Name	Took Office	Left Office	President(s)
1		Anatoliy Zlenko	August 24, 1991	August 25, 1994		Leonid Kravchuk
-		Hennadiy Udovenko	August 25, 1994	September 16, 1994		Leonid Kuchma
2			September 16, 1994	April 17, 1998
3		Borys Tarasiuk	April 17, 1998	September 29, 2000
-		Oleksandr Chalyi	September 29, 2000	October 2, 2000
4		Anatoliy Zlenko	October 2, 2000	September 2, 2003
5		Kostyantyn Gryshchenko	September 2, 2003	February 3, 2005
6		Borys Tarasiuk	February 4, 2005	December 1, 2006		Viktor Yushchenko
-		Anton Buteyko	December 1, 2006	December 5, 2006
-		Borys Tarasiuk	December 5, 2006	January 30, 2007
-		Volodymyr Ohryzko	January 31, 2007	March 21, 2007
7		Arseniy Yatseniuk	March 21, 2007	December 18, 2007
8		Volodymyr Ohryzko	December 18, 2007	March 3, 2009
-		Volodymyr Khandohiy	March 3, 2009	October 9, 2009
9		Petro Poroshenko	October 9, 2009	March 11, 2010
10		Kostyantyn Gryshchenko	March 11, 2010	December 24, 2012		Viktor Yanukovych
11		Leonid Kozhara	December 24, 2012	February 23, 2014
-		Andrii Deshchytsia	February 27, 2014	June 19, 2014		Oleksandr Turchynov
12		Pavlo Klimkin	June 19, 2014	August 29, 2019		Petro Poroshenko
13		Vadym Prystaiko	August 29, 2019	March 4, 2020		Volodymyr Zelensky
14		Dmytro Kuleba	March 4, 2020	incumbent

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