Vitaly Churkin

Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin (Russian Виталий Иванович Чуркин, scientific transliteration Vitaly Ivanovich Čurkin; born February 21, 1952 in Moscow) is since 8 April 2006, the Permanent Representative (Ambassador ) of Russia in the United Nations and the Security Council of the United Nations.

Vitaly Churkin graduated in 1974 graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO ) and began following his service in the Soviet diplomacy. Until 1979 he worked as a translator in the Foreign Ministry and translated, among others in the SALT II negotiations in Geneva. From 1979 he worked in the United States Department of the Foreign Ministry and moved in 1982 to the Soviet Embassy in Washington. Churkin 1987 returned back to Moscow and worked in the Foreign Policy Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU. From 1989 to 1990 he was press secretary of the State Department and then Head of the Information Department of the Ministry. A post he retained even after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. From 1992 to 1994 Churkin was Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, the then Russian. From 1994, he was Russia's ambassador in London, 1998-2003, Ottawa. After that, he spent several years Ambassador for Special Assignments, before he was appointed Russian ambassador at the United Nations on 8 April 2006.

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