Borys Tarasyuk
Borys Iwanowytsch Tarasjuk (Ukrainian Борис Іванович Тарасюк, scientific transliteration Borys Ivanovyč Tarasjuk; * January 1, 1949 in Dserschynsk, Zhytomyr Oblast ) is a Ukrainian politician and former Foreign Minister of Ukraine.
He had held the office for the first time from April 1998 to September 2000 under Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko. Under the presidency of Yushchenko Tarasjuk held the office since February 2005. In December 2006 he was voted by the Parliament. This decision was declared by a court to be invalid. President Yushchenko confirmed him by decree in office. Most MPs still did not recognize him as a valid foreign minister, until his dismissal even Yushchenko accepted on 30 January 2007.
Life
Tarasjuk first worked as a laboratory assistant at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute and completed his military service from 1968 to 1970 with the border of the USSR. In 1975 he graduated from the Kiev State University, where he studied International Relations and International Law. Following his studies, he worked until 1981, first Secretary, then Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic.
1981-1986 Borys Tarasjuk was first runner-up, then First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the UN in New York, 1986-1987 First Secretary in the Department of International Organizations Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. He was then the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Ukraine instructor for External Relations.
In the years following the independence of Ukraine Tarasjuk was initially brought in as adviser to the Foreign Ministry, and led 1991/1992, the Planning and Analysis Department of the Ministry. In March 1992, he was Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine and in June 1992 (until April 1995) head of the National Disarmament Commission; In addition, he headed from 1993 to 1995, the Interministerial Commission on issues of Ukraine's accession to the Euro Europe. He was one of the most important figures in the complicated negotiations on nuclear and non-nuclear disarmament of Ukraine and the Black Sea Fleet.
The end of 1994 Tarasjuk was re-appointed Deputy Secretary of State; He served until November 1995 held before he became an extraordinary Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine in the Benelux countries (until April 1998). Parallel Tarasjuk was since October 1997 Head of Mission of Ukraine to NATO.
Before, during and shortly after the reign of Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko was Foreign Minister of Ukraine Borys Tarasjuk ( 1998-2000). His longtime predecessor Hennadij Udovenko 1998 had successfully running for parliament and resigned from his post. Tarasjuks first trip abroad led him to Hungary and Poland.
Tarasjuk is since 1993 a member of the Board of the Institute for East - West Studies in New York City; to November 2000, he was also a member of the Safety and Defense Council of Ukraine. In 2004, he was Chairman of the European Affairs Committee in the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada.
Tarasjuk has been awarded the Ukrainian Order of Merit (2nd and 3rd stage). His diplomatic rank of an Extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador. In 1997, he was appointed in his country for diplomats of the year and received honors in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Lithuanians, Portugal, France and Sweden.
On the list of Group Nasha Ukraine Corporation under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko, he is ranked No. 9 He is a member of the movement Ruch, head of the National Movement of Ukraine and member of the Executive Committee of the National Rescue Committee since April 2002. During the Orange Revolution after the second round of the presidential elections in 2004, he was one of the closest advisers and employees Yushchenko. On 4 February 2005, the Parliament approved the appointment Tarasjuks as Foreign Minister in the government of Yulia Tymoshenko.
On 1 December 2006, the Parliament voted 247 votes to 25 for the dismissal Tarasjuks. This decision has been appealed. On December 6, a Kiev court ruled that dismissal Tarasjuks by the Verkhovna Rada was invalid. The government Yanukovych did not recognize this decision and refused Tarasjuk subsequently attending cabinet meetings. President Yushchenko refused several times from the alleged Yanukovych calls for dismissal Tarasjuks and confirmed him by decree in office. However Tarasjuk resigned in January 2007 from his office. Yushchenko then commissioned on 30 January Volodymyr Ohrysko for temporary acquisition of the business of the foreign minister.
Tarasjuk is married and has two daughters, a son and a grandson.