Pavlo Klimkin

Pavlo Klimkin
Pavlo Klimkin
Павло Клімкін
	Klimkin in 2016
Minister of Foreign Affairs
	In office; 19 June 2014 – 29 August 2019
President	Petro Poroshenko; Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime Minister	Arseniy Yatsenyuk; Volodymyr Groysman
Preceded by	Andrii Deshchytsia (Acting)
Succeeded by	Vadym Prystaiko
Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany
	In office; 22 June 2012 – 19 June 2014
Preceded by	Natalia Zarudna
Succeeded by	Andriy Melnyk
Personal details
Born	25 December 1967 (age 56); Kursk, Kursk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union; (now Russia)
Political party	Independent
Spouse	Natalia Klimkina
Children	2 sons
Alma mater	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Pavlo Anatoliiovych Klimkin (Ukrainian: Павло Анатолійович Клімкін; born 25 December 1967) is a Ukrainian diplomat who from 19 June 2014 until 29 August 2019 served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.^[2] A Moscow-educated physicist,^[3]^[1] he has worked in the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry since 1993, with positions including director of the department for the European Union, as well as deputy foreign minister in the First Azarov Government,^[4]^[5] where he played a central role in negotiating the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement.^[5]^[6]

Klimkin is also a former (2012–2014) Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Germany.

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