Pavlo Anatoliiovych Klimkin is a Ukrainian diplomat who from 19 June 2014 until 29 August 2019 served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. A Moscow-educated physicist, he has worked in the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry since 1993, with positions including director of the department for the European Union, as well as deputy foreign minister in the First Azarov Government, where he played a central role in negotiating the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement.
Klimkin in 2016
Klimkin meeting Austrian foreign minister Sebastian Kurz, 3 December 2015
Klimkin meeting Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, 28 May 2016
Klimkin with U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Washington D.C., 20 June 2017
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is the ministry of the Ukrainian government that oversees the foreign relations of Ukraine. The head of the ministry is the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The ministry's main building in Kyiv
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Deshchytsia before the two joined with Russian and European Union officials about Ukraine in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 17, 2014.