Pavlo Klimkin
| Pavlo Klimkin Павло Клімкін |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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Assumed office 19 June 2014 |
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| Prime Minister |
Arseniy Yatsenyuk Volodymyr Groysman |
| Preceded by | Andrii Deshchytsia (Acting) |
| Ambassador to Germany | |
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In office 22 June 2012 – 19 June 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Natalia Zarudna |
| Succeeded by | Andriy Melnyk |
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25 December 1967 Kursk, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Natalia Klimkina |
| Children | 2 sons |
| Alma mater | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
Pavlo Klimkin (Ukrainian: Павло Клімкін; born 25 December 1967) is a Ukrainian diplomat and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine. Since 19 June 2014 he has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. A Moscow-educated physicist, he has worked in the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry since 1993, with positions including director of the department for the European Union, as well as deputy foreign minister in the First Azarov Government, where he played a central role in negotiating the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement.
Pavlo Klimkin was born on 25 December 1967 in the city of Kursk in Russia (then the Soviet Union); but spent only the first two months of his life there. His family moved to Kyiv in 1974. Klimkin's father was a military pilot. Beyond Russian and Ukrainian, Klimkin is fluent in English and German and has a basic knowledge of French and Spanish. In 1991 Klimkin graduated from the department of aerophysics and space research at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, with a master's degree in physics and mathematics. Klimkin moved to Ukraine at the age of 24. He was then a research officer from 1991 to 1993 at the E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
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