Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' is a Ukrainian socio-political online media outlet founded by Heorhii Gongadze in April 2000. After Gongadze’s death in September 2000, the editorial team was led by co-founder Olena Prytula, who remained the editor-in ...
(1 March 2021)) was a Ukrainian diplomat. He served as Ukraine's first
Foreign Minister
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from 1990 to 1994 and again from 2000 to 2003. Zlenko was previously the
Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations
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History
On 26 June 1945, ...
Deutsche Welle
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(1 March 2021)
Early life and career
Born 2 June 1938, in the village
Stavyshche
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,
Kyiv Oblast
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, Zlenko graduated from Kyiv mining college in 1959, and was made mining master of the "Maksymivka-Pologa" mine, located in
Kadiivka
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(at the time the city was named Serho/Sergo). In 1967 Zlenko graduated from
Kyiv University
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, and was subsequently made a diplomatic attache for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.
In 1973, Zlenko became a staff member of the Secretariat of
UNESCO
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in
Paris
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. He subsequently became the permanent representative of the USSR to UNESCO in October 1983. In April 1987, he became a Deputy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and subsequently became the First Deputy for a year, between July 1989 and July 1990.
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In 1990, Zlenko became the first Foreign Minister of the newly independent Ukraine. He strongly promoted Ukraine's relations with Western Europe. In an interview in 1990, Zlenko said:
His first term concluded in September 1994, and he became the
Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations
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History
On 26 June 1945, ...
until September 1997, subsequently serving as the Ukrainian Ambassador to France until 2000, in which capacity he returned to his former position as Ukrainian Representative to UNESCO (in November 1998 he also was appointed Ukrainian Ambassador to
Portugal
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). He subsequently returned to his position as Minister of Foreign affairs, until retiring in 2003.
In 2010, Zlenko was appointed
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