Minister of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine)

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Міністр закордонних справ України
Incumbent Andrii Sybiha since 5 September 2024
Appointer	President of Ukraine
Term length	No fixed term
Inaugural holder	Anatoliy Zlenko
Formation	24 August 1991
Succession	First deputy minister

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.

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

Ukrainian People's Republic

No.	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	President of Central Rada
1		Oleksander Shulhyn	9 January 1918	24 January 1918		Mykhailo Hrushevskyi
2		Vsevolod Holubovych	30 January 1918	3 March 1918
3		Mykola Liubynskyi	3 March 1918	28 April 1918

Ukrainian State

No.	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Hetman
-		Mykola Vasylenko	30 April 1918	20 May 1918 (acting)		Pavlo Skoropadskyi
1		Dmytro Doroshenko	20 May 1918	14 November 1918
2		Georgiy Afanasyev	14 November 1918	14 December 1918

Ukrainian People's Republic (restored)

No.	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Head of Directorate
1		Volodymyr Chekhivskyi	26 December 1918	11 February 1919		Volodymyr Vynnychenko
2		Kostiantyn Matsiyevych	13 February 1919	9 April 1919		Symon Petliura
3		Volodymyr Temnytskyi	9 April 1919	27 August 1919
-		Andriy Livytskyi	29 August 1919	26 May 1920 (acting)
4		Andriy Nikovskyi	26 May 1920	10 November 1920

Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (people's commissars)

No.	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	First Secretary
-		Stepan Vlasenko	28 November 1918	January 1919 (Head of the International department of the Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine)		Emanuel Kviring
1		Christian Rakovsky	29 January 1919	July 1919		Georgy Pyatakov
2		unknown	July 1919	21 March 1920		Stanislav Kosior
3		Christian Rakovsky	21 March 1920	July 1923

Ukrainian National Government (1941)

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)

No.	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	First Secretary
1		Oleksandr Korniychuk	5 February 1944	12 July 1944 (people's commissar)		Nikita Khrushchev
2		Dmitry Manuilsky	12 July 1944 (before 15 March 1946 – people's commissar)	10 June 1952
3		Anatoliy Baranovsky	10 June 1952	10 May 1954		Leonid Melnikov
4		Luka Palamarchuk	11 May 1954	13 August 1965		Alexei Kirichenko
						Nikolai Podgorny
						Petro Shelest
-		Anatoliy Kysil	13 August 1965	16 March 1966
5		Dmytro Bilokolos	16 March 1966	11 June 1970
-		unknown	11 June 1970	5 August 1970
6		Georgiy Shevel	5 August 1970	18 November 1980
						Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
7		Volodymyr Martynenko	18 November 1980	28 December 1984
8		Volodymyr Kravets	29 December 1984	27 July 1990
						Volodymyr Ivashko
						Stanislav Hurenko
9		Anatoliy Zlenko	27 July 1990	24 August 1991		Stanislav Hurenko

Ministers after independence

No.	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	President(s)
1		Anatoliy Zlenko	24 August 1991	25 August 1994		Leonid Kravchuk
-		Hennadiy Udovenko	25 August 1994	16 September 1994		Leonid Kuchma
2			16 September 1994	17 April 1998
3		Borys Tarasiuk	17 April 1998	29 September 2000
-		Oleksandr Chalyi	29 September 2000	2 October 2000
4		Anatoliy Zlenko	2 October 2000	2 September 2003
5		Kostyantyn Gryshchenko	2 September 2003	3 February 2005
6		Borys Tarasiuk	4 February 2005	1 December 2006		Viktor Yushchenko
-		Anton Buteyko	1 December 2006	5 December 2006
-		Borys Tarasiuk	5 December 2006	30 January 2007
-		Volodymyr Ohryzko	31 January 2007	21 March 2007
7		Arseniy Yatseniuk	21 March 2007	18 December 2007
8		Volodymyr Ohryzko	18 December 2007	3 March 2009
-		Volodymyr Khandohiy	3 March 2009	9 October 2009
9		Petro Poroshenko	9 October 2009	11 March 2010
10		Kostyantyn Gryshchenko	11 March 2010	24 December 2012		Viktor Yanukovych
11		Leonid Kozhara	24 December 2012	23 February 2014
-		Andrii Deshchytsia	27 February 2014	19 June 2014		Oleksandr Turchynov
12		Pavlo Klimkin	19 June 2014	29 August 2019		Petro Poroshenko
13		Vadym Prystaiko	29 August 2019	4 March 2020		Volodymyr Zelenskyy
14		Dmytro Kuleba	4 March 2020	5 September 2024
15		Andrii Sybiha	5 September 2024	incumbent