Andrii Deshchytsia
| Andrii Deshchytsia Андрій Богданович Дещиця |
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| Ambassador of Ukraine to Poland | |
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Assumed office 13 October 2014 |
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| President | Petro Poroshenko |
| Preceded by | Vladyslav Kanevsky (temporary chargé d'affaires) |
| Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 27 February – 19 June 2014 |
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| President |
Oleksandr Turchynov (acting) Petro Poroshenko |
| Prime Minister | Arseniy Yatsenyuk |
| Preceded by | Leonid Kozhara |
| Succeeded by | Pavlo Klimkin |
| Ambassador of Ukraine to Finland | |
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In office 2008–2012 |
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| President |
Viktor Yushchenko Viktor Yanukovych |
| Preceded by | Oleksandr Maidannyk |
| Succeeded by | Oleksiy Selin |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Andrii Bohdanovych Deshchytsia 22 September 1965 Lviv region, Ukrainian SSR |
| Alma mater |
Lviv University University of Alberta |
Andrii Bohdanovych Deshchytsia (Ukrainian: Андрій Богданович Дещиця; born 22 September 1965) is a Ukrainian diplomat, Ambassador of Ukraine and from February to June 2014 Acting Foreign minister of Ukraine.
Born on September 22, 1965 in Spasiv, near Pervyatychi, Lviv region, Deshchytsia graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv National University (1989), University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) (1995). Graduated with a master's degree from the Department of History of University of Alberta in 1995 following the successful defense of his master’s thesis, “The Rise of Multi-Party Systems in Poland and Ukraine,” written under the supervision of Professor John-Paul Himka. Fluent in Ukrainian, English, Russian and Polish.
From 1996—1999, he served as press Secretary, First Secretary of the Embassy of Ukraine to the Republic of Poland. He then spent 1999—2001 as Senior Coordinator of PAUCI (Polish-American-Ukrainian Cooperation Initiative).
From 2001—2004 he was counselor of the Embassy of Ukraine to the Republic of Finland. He then spent until 2006 as Counselor and Minister-Counselor of the Embassy of Ukraine to the Republic of Poland.
2006—2008 he was Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He then spent four years, from 2008—2012, as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Finland and Iceland, while living in Finland. From 2012 to February, 2014, he was Ambassador-at-Large. During that time, from January–December, 2013, he was Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for Conflict Resolution.
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