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Viacheslav Yatsiuk

Viacheslav Yatsiuk is a career diplomat with 20 years of professional experience in both bilateral and multilateral diplomacy. He began his diplomatic service in the Department of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. From 1997 to 2000 he was posted to New York where he worked in the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations. From 1997 to 1998 he acted as advisor for political affairs to the President of the 52nd session of the UN General Assembly. When Ukraine was elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 2000-2001 term, he served as his country’s alternate representative on this body.

From December 2000 to December 2005 he held various diplomatic positions in the Foreign Policy Directorate within the Administration of the President of Ukraine. In particular, from 2002 to 2004 he worked as Head of the Department for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, and in September 2004 he was appointed Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Directorate. During that period Mr Yatsiuk was a member of a number of intergovernmental structures, including the Committee on Co-operation between Ukraine and the European Union, the Ukrainian-American Foreign Policy Committee, the Ukrainian-British Consultative Mechanism and some others.

From December 2005 till December 2009 he was posted to London where he worked as Counsellor, and later as Minister Counsellor, Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Ukraine in the United Kingdom. From December 2009 till August 2012 he served as the Minister Counsellor, Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Russian Federation.

Upon his return to Kyiv Mr Yatsiuk was appointed Political Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Head of the 2013 OSCE Chairmanship Task Force. Mr Yatsiuk is awarded the Order of Danylo Halytsky and received a number of other national awards of Ukraine. He holds the diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. He has a degree from the Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. He speaks fluently English, French and Russian. Viacheslav Yatsiuk was born on 11 September 1969. He is married to Olena Bilous and they have daughter Stefaniya and son Bogdan.