Volodymyr Ohryzko

Volodymyr Stanislawowytsch Ohrysko ( born April 1, 1956 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician and was dated 18 December 2007 to March 3, 2009 Foreign Minister of Ukraine.

Life

Volodymyr Ohrysko graduated in 1978 graduated from the Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University in the fields of International Relations and Translation (German ) from. In addition to his conclusion he reached the academic degree of doctor of historical sciences. In the same year he began his diplomatic career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR, where he worked as a press attaché. From 1981 to 1983 he did his military service. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the newly independent Ukraine, he rose in the Department of Policy Analysis and Coordination in the rank of the Council. 1992 to 1993 and 1994 to 1996, he worked in the diplomatic mission of his country in Germany and 1993-1994 in Austria. From 1996 to 1999 he headed the department of foreign affairs in the Ukrainian presidential office. After that, he was until 2004 the Ukrainian Ambassador in Vienna. 2004 to 2005 he worked in the Department for Euro-Atlantic cooperation of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and in 2005 was deputy foreign minister Borys Tarasjuk. After this several times did not receive the required majority for confirmation in office in the Verkhovna Rada, he declared his resignation on 30 January 2007. Ohrysko was provisionally transferred on the same day by President Viktor Yushchenko, who according to the Constitution against the Rada has the right to nominate the occupation of foreign ministries, the Office of the Secretary of State. On 22 February 2007 Ohrysko failed in the Parliament's vote on his appointment as foreign minister. He received 196 of 450 votes. In a new vote on March 20, he fell, now with 195 votes by turn. On 21 March 2007 Arseniy Yatsenyuk was nominated by President Yushchenko's foreign minister. Ohrysko was First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Yatsenyuk changed after the 2007 parliamentary elections to the post of President of Parliament. President Yushchenko proposed to the Parliament on December 11, 2007 Volodymyr Ohrysko before as foreign minister of the second Tymoshenko Government. Immediately after the election Yulia Tymoshenko as prime minister on 18 December 2007 and its proposed cabinet and Yushchenko was confirmed by the Ukrainian Parliament. Ohrysko was first elected as a Foreign Minister of Ukraine. In the context of internal political disputes between Tymoshenko and Yushchenko, as well as the dispute between Ukraine and Romania to the common maritime boundary in the Black Sea, the Verkhovna Rada on March 3, 2009, the dismissal Ohryskos decided as Foreign Minister. Counter Ohrysko voted deputies of the opposition and a portion of the fraction of the Blok Juliji Tymoshenko. Ohrysko was given the de facto defeat of Ukraine before the International Court of Justice to the load. In the dispute over the maritime border went cryptically about the rights to the exploitation of suspected mineral deposits in the Black Sea

Ohrysko is married and has one son and two daughters. He speaks Ukrainian, Russian, German and English.