1. Andrii Bohdanovych Deshchytsia is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician.
11 Facts About Andrii Deshchytsia
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From February to June 2014 Deshchytsia was Acting Foreign minister of Ukraine.
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Andrii Deshchytsia was from October 2014 to June 2022 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Republic of Poland.
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Andrii Deshchytsia was born on 22 September 1965 in Spasiv, near Pervyatychi, Lviv Oblast.
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Andrii Deshchytsia became a Candidate of Political Science after 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.
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Andrii Deshchytsia is fluent in Ukrainian, English, Russian, and Polish.
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From 1996 to 1999, Andrii Deshchytsia served as press Secretary, First Secretary of the Embassy of Ukraine to the Republic of Poland.
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On 27 March 2014, at the UN General Assembly, Andrii Deshchytsia presented the resolution on "Territorial integrity of Ukraine", which was supported by 100 United Nations member states, affirming the United Nations commitment to recognize Crimea within Ukraine's international borders and to condemn Crimea's annexation by Russia as illegal.
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On 17 April 2014, Andrii Deshchytsia negotiated with John Kerry, Catherine Ashton, and Sergei Lavrov at a quadrilateral meeting in Geneva in an attempt to find a diplomatic solution to the war and humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian aggression in Ukraine.
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Andrii Deshchytsia had descended on the protest in the hope that he could quell the escalating trouble, pleading with the demonstrators not to attack the building despite understanding their concerns.
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However, Geoffrey Pyatt, the US ambassador to Ukraine, wrote on Twitter that the minister had been "seeking to defuse a dangerous situation", adding that Andrii Deshchytsia is "a skilled diplomat and credit to Ukraine".