1. Hennadiy Yosypovych Udovenko was a Ukrainian politician and diplomat.
10 Facts About Hennadiy Udovenko
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Hennadiy Udovenko served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, was the 52nd President of the United Nations General Assembly and a People's Deputy of Ukraine.
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Hennadiy Udovenko studied international relations at Kyiv University, having graduated in 1954.
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Hennadiy Udovenko did graduate studies in agricultural economics at the Ukrainian Research and the Development Institute for Agricultural Economy and Organization from 1956 to 1959.
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Hennadiy Udovenko entered diplomatic service in 1959 as 1st secretary, counsellor at the Department of International Economic organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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On 14 May 1999, Hennadiy Udovenko was elected chairman of the People's Movement of Ukraine political party, having served as acting chairman since the end of March 1999, when the previous chairman of Rukh, Viacheslav Chornovil, had died in a car accident.
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Hennadiy Udovenko was reelected in 2001 and served as chairman of the party until May 3,2003, having been succeeded by Borys Tarasyuk who had earlier succeeded him as Ukraine's foreign minister.
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Aged 76, Hennadiy Udovenko chose not to participate in the new elections.
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Hennadiy Udovenko died in a Kyiv hospital on 12 February 2013; the cause of death was not publicly revealed.
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Hennadiy Udovenko had been hospitalized at the same hospital in early February 2013.