What to be discussed:
- What was the most difficult in building a foreign policy of Ukraine after revolutionary events?
- How was it necessary to change a vector of diplomacy?
- What events on Maidan, and also what experience of work as a minister became a real challenge and is best remembered?
Andrii Deshchytsia - Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (February – June 2014).
From 27 February 2014 to 19 June 2014 Andrii Deshchytsia was appointed as Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He has a diplomatic rank of Ambassador-at-Large as well as Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for Conflict Resolution. During 2008-2012 Mr. Deshchytsia was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Finland and Iceland (concurrently). During 2006-2008 Mr. Deshchytsia was Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, and in 2004-2006 - held a position of Counselor, Minister-Counselor of the Embassy of Ukraine to the Republic of Poland. In 2001-2004 he was Counselor of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Finland. During 1999-2001 Mr. Deshchytsia was Senior Coordinator at PAUCI Program (Polish-American-Ukrainian Cooperation Initiative). During 1996-1999 he held a position of Press Secretary, First Secretary of the Embassy of Ukraine to the Republic of Poland.
Education: He graduated from Lviv Ivan Franko State University (1989), Alberta University (Edmonton, Canada) (1995), M.A. Social Sciences. Ph.D. in Political Science (1995).
Working language of the meeting – Ukrainian.
Location – «Hilton» Hotel, «Istambul» conference hall, Tarasa Schevchenka blvd.30
To participate in a meeting please fill in registration form and send it to us by 2 p.m., 9 October 2014. Preliminary registration is required. Seats are limited.
FOR INFORMATION: «Open World» Discussion Club is an educational project of Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation for socially active young people. The purpose of the project is to educate a new generation of responsible leaders. Every month the Foundation initiates lectures with renowned experts, political and public activists for discussing efficient solutions to social problems in Ukraine and in the world.
