1. Borys Ivanovych Tarasyuk is a Ukrainian politician who twice served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and a former MP who is since December 2019 Ukraine's permanent representative to the Council of Europe.
10 Facts About Borys Tarasyuk
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Borys Tarasyuk is a Senior Network Member at the European Leadership Network.
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Borys Tarasyuk served as deputy of foreign minister from 9 March 1992 until 16 September 1995.
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Borys Tarasyuk became foreign minister for the first time from 17 April 1998 until 29 September 2000.
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Borys Tarasyuk later broke with President Leonid Kuchma, and became a foreign relations adviser to Viktor Yushchenko, the main opposition candidate in the 2004 presidential elections.
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Borys Tarasyuk was formally dismissed by the Verkhovna Rada on 1 December 2006.
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Borys Tarasyuk was placed at number 7 on the electoral list of Batkivshchina during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
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Borys Tarasyuk did not participate in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
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Borys Tarasyuk is the founder of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, a political action committee established to campaign for NATO- and European Union memberships in Ukraine.
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Borys Tarasyuk has been decorated with highest state awards of Argentina, Brazil, France, Lithuania, Portugal, Sweden and Venezuela.