Kostyantyn Gryshchenko
Kostyantyn Hryshchenko Костянтин Грищенко | |
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| File:Kostyantyn Gryshchenko.jpg Kostyantyn Gryshchenko | |
| Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
| Assumed office 24 December 2012[1] | |
| Prime Minister | Mykola Azarov |
| Preceded by | [[]] |
| 11th Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine | |
| In office 11 March 2010 – 24 December 2012[1] | |
| Prime Minister | Mykola Azarov |
| Preceded by | Petro Poroshenko |
| Succeeded by | Leonid Kozhara |
| 5th Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine | |
| In office 2 September 2003 – 3 February 2005 | |
| Prime Minister | Viktor Yanukovych |
| Preceded by | Anatoliy Zlenko |
| Succeeded by | Borys Tarasiuk |
| 6th Ukraine Ambassador to the United States | |
| In office January 2000 – September 2003 | |
| President | Leonid Kuchma |
| Preceded by | Anton Buteiko |
| Succeeded by | Mykhailo Reznik |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 October 1953 Kiev |
| Spouse | Natalia Ihorivna |
| Children | Oksana |
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko (Ukrainian: Костянтин Іванович Грищенко), born 28 October 1953 in Kyiv, Ukraine, is the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. He is married to Natalia Gryshchenko [2] and they have a daughter, Oksana Gryshchenko. [3]
Gryshchenko served as the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States between 2000 and 2003 and as the ambassador to Russia between 2008 and 2008. He was also Minister for Foreign Affairs between 2003 and 2005 and from 2010[4] , before becoming Vice Prime Minister at the end of 2012.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b Yanukovych appoints new Cabinet of Ministers, Kyiv Post (24 December 2012)
- ^ Ukrainian Weekly Vol. LXII, no. 8, 23 February 2003, quote: “Ambassador Gryshchenko and his wife, Natalia, arrived in the afternoon of January 18 and first met privately with Archbishop Antony in his Consistory office.” http://www.scribd.com/doc/12836296/The-Ukrainian-Weekly-200308
- ^ Kyiv Post, Dec. 6, 2012, quote: “Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko dropped by for a brief formal talk since he was in town anyway for bilateral meetings. His daughter, Oksana Gryshchenko, an adviser to Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko, unexpectedly appeared as a panelist on the energy topic.” http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/passion-has-disappeared-in-us-ukraine-relationship-317270.html
- ^ "Ministry of Foreign Affairs". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
- ^ Kyiv Post, Dec. 24, 2012 “Yanukovych appoints new Cabinet of Ministers” http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/yanukovych-is-appointing-new-cabinet-of-ministers-318086.html
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