Anatoliy Maksymovych Zlenko ( uk, Анато́лій Макси́мович Зле́нко; 2 June 1938

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diplomat. He served as Ukraine's first

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from 1990 to 1994 and again from 2000 to 2003. Zlenko was previously the

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from 1994 to 1997.Помер перший глава МЗС України Анатолій Зленко

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Early life and career

Born 2 June 1938, in the village

Stavyshche Stavyshche (, pl, Stawiszcze) is an urban-type settlement in Bila Tserkva Raion, Kyiv Oblast (oblast, province) in northern Ukraine, on the Hnylyi Tikych river. It hosts the administration of Stavyshche settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of ...

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, Zlenko graduated from Kyiv mining college in 1959, and was made mining master of the "Maksymivka-Pologa" mine, located in

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(at the time the city was named Serho/Sergo). In 1967 Zlenko graduated from

Kyiv University Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

, and was subsequently made a diplomatic attache for the

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. In 1973, Zlenko became a staff member of the Secretariat of

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. He subsequently became the permanent representative of the USSR to UNESCO in October 1983. In April 1987, he became a Deputy of the

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and subsequently became the First Deputy for a year, between July 1989 and July 1990.

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Mohammad Khatami and Anatoliy Zlenko - July 19, 2003

In 1990, Zlenko became the first Foreign Minister of the newly independent Ukraine. He strongly promoted Ukraine's relations with Western Europe. In an interview in 1990, Zlenko said: His first term concluded in September 1994, and he became the

until September 1997, subsequently serving as the Ukrainian Ambassador to France until 2000, in which capacity he returned to his former position as Ukrainian Representative to UNESCO (in November 1998 he also was appointed Ukrainian Ambassador to

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). He subsequently returned to his position as Minister of Foreign affairs, until retiring in 2003. In 2010, Zlenko was appointed

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of the Faculty of International Relations of

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