Volodymyr Khandohiy

Volodymyr Dmytrowytsch Chandohij (Ukrainian Володимир Дмитрович Хандогій; born July 21, 1953 in Cherkassy, ​​Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian diplomat and 2009 was several months Acting Foreign Minister of Ukraine.

Volodymyr Chandohij studied at the Faculty of International Relations and International Law at the Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev. From 1975 to 1976 he worked as a translator at the construction site of a steel mill in Karachi ( Pakistan). After that he worked as a counselor in the press department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR (USSR ). From 1979 to 1983 he was part of the embassy of the USSR at the United Nations in New York City. He then worked again in different positions in the Foreign Ministry in Kiev. In 1988 he returned to New York, this time as part of the delegation of the Soviet Union. After its collapse Chandohij remained at the United Nations, now as a representative of the independent Ukraine. In 1994 he returned back again to the Foreign Ministry. From 1995 to 1998 he was assistant secretary of state for the first time. In 1988 he was Ambassador of Ukraine in different countries: first in Canada, then in the Netherlands and eventually in Belgium ( with responsibility for Luxembourg and the relations with NATO ). From October 2005 to January 2006 Chandohij was head of the department for relations with the NATO in the Kiev State Department. Since January 2006 he is again one of the Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine since July 2007, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. After the dismissal of Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohrysko on 3 March 2009 by the Ukrainian Parliament Chandohij took over as acting whose term of office. October 9, 2009 Petro Poroshenko was elected the new ordinary foreign minister. Since 30 July 2010, he is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in the United Kingdom.