1. Sergiy Olehovych Kyslytsya is a Ukrainian career diplomat, who serves as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations.
17 Facts About Sergiy Kyslytsya
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Sergiy Kyslytsya had previously served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
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Sergiy Kyslytsya is fluent in Ukrainian, English, Russian, Spanish and French.
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Sergiy Kyslytsya started his career in international diplomacy as an intern to the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine.
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In 2001, Sergiy Kyslytsya became the Political Counselor at the Embassy of Ukraine, Washington, DC before becoming the political Minister-Counselor at the embassy.
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In 2006, Sergiy Kyslytsya was appointed the Director-General for International Organizations within the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
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Sergiy Kyslytsya was appointed the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in 2014.
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Sergiy Kyslytsya was Deputy Minister during the Annexation of Crimea by Russia, and was involved in the international response to the annexation.
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In 2016, Sergiy Kyslytsya was assigned the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
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Sergiy Kyslytsya concurrently served as Ukraine's Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago.
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Sergiy Kyslytsya was appointed to be the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations in 2019.
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On December 21,2024, Sergiy Kyslytsya dismissed from the position during diplomatic sector rotations carried out by President Zelenskyy.
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On February 13,2025 Sergiy Kyslytsya was appointed the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
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In early 2022, Sergiy Kyslytsya gained international media attention when he made a series of comments in relation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, including condemnations of the Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya.
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When questioned by a reporter about Nebenzya's assertion that the military operation in Ukraine "isn't called a war" Sergiy Kyslytsya said "you want me to dissect the crazy lunatic semantics of a person whose president violates the charter, whose president declared a war and he's playing with words".
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Sergiy Kyslytsya slammed the Russian actions as unjustifiable and the Russian delegation as untrustworthy.
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Sergiy Kyslytsya has to do what the guy in Berlin did in a bunker in May 1945.