13 Facts About Pavlo Klimkin

Pavlo Anatoliiovych Klimkin is a Ukrainian diplomat who from 19 June 2014 until 29 August 2019 served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

Pavlo Klimkin was born on 25 December 1967 in the city of Kursk in Russia ; but spent only the first two months of his life there.

In 1991 Pavlo Klimkin graduated from the department of aerophysics and space research at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, with a specialist degree in physics and mathematics.

Pavlo Klimkin 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.

In 1993, Pavlo Klimkin started his career at the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, where he would hold a variety of positions.

Pavlo Klimkin was appointed Minister-Counselor of the Ukrainian Embassy in the United Kingdom in 2004, a position he held until 2008.

Pavlo Klimkin served as both Deputy Foreign Minister and Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry until 22 June 2012, when he was appointed Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany.

Pavlo Klimkin's appointment was met with voiced approval by academics such as Hryhorii Nemyria, and that day Klimkin was congratulated by phone by foreign ministers such as Laurent Fabius of France, John Baird of Canada, and Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany.

Pavlo Klimkin was married to a fellow diplomat, Natalia, and has two sons.

Beyond Russian and Ukrainian, Pavlo Klimkin is fluent in English and German and has a basic knowledge of French and Spanish.

Pavlo Klimkin has the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine.

Additionally, Pavlo Klimkin declared an apartment and apartment under joint ownership.

Pavlo Klimkin declared a 2000 Skoda Felicia car and a 2019 Mazda CX 5 car.