The minister of foreign affairs (Ukrainian: Міністр закордонних справ) is the foreign minister of Ukraine and head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is in charge of the diplomatic corps and realization of the foreign policy of Ukraine. The minister of foreign affairs is appointed by the president.
| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine | |
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| Міністр закордонних справ України | |
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| Appointer | President of Ukraine |
| Term length | No fixed term |
| Inaugural holder | Anatoliy Zlenko |
| Formation | 24 August 1991 |
| Succession | First deputy minister |
Since Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the nation has had 14 foreign ministers (not including acting ones). During the Ukrainian chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2013, the Ukrainian foreign minister at that time (Leonid Kozhara) served as Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE.
List of ministers of foreign affairs
editUkrainian People's Republic
edit| No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | President of Central Rada | |
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| 1 | 
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Oleksander Shulhyn | 9 January 1918 | 24 January 1918 | Mykhailo Hrushevskyi | |
| 2 | 
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Vsevolod Holubovych | 30 January 1918 | 3 March 1918 | ||
| 3 | 
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Mykola Liubynskyi | 3 March 1918 | 28 April 1918 | ||
Ukrainian State
edit| No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Hetman | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 
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Mykola Vasylenko | 30 April 1918 | 20 May 1918 (acting) | Pavlo Skoropadskyi | |
| 1 | 
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Dmytro Doroshenko | 20 May 1918 | 14 November 1918 | ||
| 2 | 
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Georgiy Afanasyev | 14 November 1918 | 14 December 1918 | ||
Ukrainian People's Republic (restored)
edit| No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Head of Directorate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
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Volodymyr Chekhivskyi | 26 December 1918 | 11 February 1919 | Volodymyr Vynnychenko | |
| 2 | 
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Kostiantyn Matsiyevych | 13 February 1919 | 9 April 1919 | Symon Petliura | |
| 3 | 
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Volodymyr Temnytskyi | 9 April 1919 | 27 August 1919 | ||
| - | 
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Andriy Livytskyi | 29 August 1919 | 26 May 1920 (acting) | ||
| 4 | 
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Andriy Nikovskyi | 26 May 1920 | 10 November 1920 | ||
Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (people's commissars)
edit| No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | First Secretary | |
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| - | 
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Stepan Vlasenko | 28 November 1918 | January 1919 (Head of the International department of the Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine) | Emanuel Kviring | |
| 1 | 
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Christian Rakovsky | 29 January 1919 | July 1919 | Georgy Pyatakov | |
| 2 | unknown | July 1919 | 21 March 1920 | Stanislav Kosior | ||
| 3 |
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Christian Rakovsky | 21 March 1920 | July 1923 | ||
Ukrainian National Government (1941)
edit| No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Head of Ukrainian National Government | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | Volodymyr Stakhiv | 30 June 1941 | 12 July 1941 | Yaroslav Stetsko | ||
Soviet Ukraine (postwar)
edit| No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | First Secretary | |
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| 1 | 
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Oleksandr Korniychuk | 5 February 1944 | 12 July 1944 (people's commissar) | Nikita Khrushchev | |
| 2 | 
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Dmitry Manuilsky | 12 July 1944 (befor 15 March 1946 - people's commissar) | 10 June 1952 | ||
| 3 | Anatoliy Baranovsky | 10 June 1952 | 10 May 1954 | Leonid Melnikov | ||
| 4 | 
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Luka Palamarchuk | 11 May 1954 | 13 August 1965 | Alexei Kirichenko | |
| Nikolai Podgorny | ||||||
| Petro Shelest | ||||||
| - |
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Anatoliy Kysil | 13 August 1965 | 16 March 1966 | ||
| 5 |
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Dmytro Bilokolos | 16 March 1966 | 11 June 1970 | ||
| - |
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unknown | 11 June 1970 | 5 August 1970 | ||
| 6 |
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Georgiy Shevel | 5 August 1970 | 18 November 1980 | ||
| Volodymyr Shcherbytsky | ||||||
| 7 |
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Volodymyr Martynenko | 18 November 1980 | 28 December 1984 | ||
| 8 |
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Volodymyr Kravets | 29 December 1984 | 27 July 1990 | ||
| Volodymyr Ivashko | ||||||
| Stanislav Hurenko | ||||||
| 9 | 
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Anatoliy Zlenko | 27 July 1990 | 24 August 1991 | Stanislav Hurenko | |
Ministers after independence
edit| No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | President(s) | |
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Anatoliy Zlenko | 24 August 1991 | 25 August 1994 | Leonid Kravchuk | |
| - | 
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Hennadiy Udovenko | 25 August 1994 | 16 September 1994 | Leonid Kuchma | |
| 2 | 16 September 1994 | 17 April 1998 | ||||
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Borys Tarasiuk | 17 April 1998 | 29 September 2000 | ||
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Oleksandr Chalyi | 29 September 2000 | 2 October 2000 | ||
| 4 |
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Anatoliy Zlenko | 2 October 2000 | 2 September 2003 | ||
| 5 | 
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Kostyantyn Gryshchenko | 2 September 2003 | 3 February 2005 | ||
| 6 |
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Borys Tarasiuk | 4 February 2005 | 1 December 2006 | Viktor Yushchenko | |
| - | 
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Anton Buteyko | 1 December 2006 | 5 December 2006 | ||
| - |
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Borys Tarasiuk | 5 December 2006 | 30 January 2007 | ||
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Volodymyr Ohryzko | 31 January 2007 | 21 March 2007 | ||
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Arseniy Yatseniuk | 21 March 2007 | 18 December 2007 | ||
| 8 |
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Volodymyr Ohryzko | 18 December 2007 | 3 March 2009 | ||
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Volodymyr Khandohiy | 3 March 2009 | 9 October 2009 | ||
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Petro Poroshenko | 9 October 2009 | 11 March 2010 | ||
| 10 |
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Kostyantyn Gryshchenko | 11 March 2010 | 24 December 2012 | Viktor Yanukovych | |
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Leonid Kozhara | 24 December 2012 | 23 February 2014 | ||
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Andrii Deshchytsia | 27 February 2014 | 19 June 2014 | Oleksandr Turchynov | |
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Pavlo Klimkin | 19 June 2014 | 29 August 2019 | Petro Poroshenko | |
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Vadym Prystaiko | 29 August 2019 | 4 March 2020 | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | |
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Dmytro Kuleba | 4 March 2020 | 5 September 2024 | ||
| 15 |
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Andrii Sybiha | 5 September 2024 | incumbent | ||