Head of the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the UN
25 April 2024 01:12

Sergiy Kyslytsya

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations

Diplomatic career

November 2022 – present – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (non-resident).

October 2021 – present – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (non-resident).

2014 – 2020 – Deputy Foreign Minister.

2006 – 2014 – Director-General for International Organizations (Directorate-general for the United Nations and Other International Organizations of the MFA of Ukraine until November 2011).

2006 – Deputy Director-general of the Second Territorial Department (The Americas & W. Europe), MFA of Ukraine.

2003 – 2005 – Minister-Counselor, DCM (political), Embassy of Ukraine in the United States of America.

2001 – 2003 – Political Counselor, Embassy of Ukraine in the United States of America.

2000 – 2001 – Senior Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Group of Advisers and Ambassadors at Large, MFA, Ukraine.

1998 – 2000 – Chief of Staff of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

1996 – 1998 – Second, First Secretary (political), Special Assistant to the Ambassador, Embassy of Ukraine to Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg and Mission of Ukraine to NATO; contact point for WEU-Ukraine (Brussels).

1994 – 1996 – Head, a.i., of the Council of Europe Section, MFA, Ukraine.

Special Assistant to the Deputy, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine.

1993 – Attaché, Third secretary of the CSCE and European Regional Cooperation Department of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine.

1992 – Intern at the CSCE and European Regional Cooperation Department of the MFA of Ukraine.


Additional positions

2023 — President of the UN Women Executive Board Bureau.

2022 — Vice-president of the UN Women Executive Board Bureau.

2021–2023 Vice-president of the UNDP/UNOPS/UNFPA Executive Board Bureau.

2014–2020 Chair of the National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO.

Member of the Delegation of Ukraine to 62 nd — 77th sessions of the UN General Assembly.

2017 — Head of the Delegation of Ukraine to the 39th session of UNESCO General Conference.

2015–2017 — Representative of Ukraine to the UNESCO Executive Board.

Head of the Delegation of Ukraine to the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw.

Chair of the Gender Equality Commission of the Council of Europe (re-elected for 2016).

2012–2014 — Vice-Chair of the Gender Equality Commission of the Council of Europe.

2006–2011 — Member of the Steering Committee for the Equality between Women and Men (CDEG) of the Council of Europe (2011 Member of the Bureau of the CDEG).

2014–2015 — Co-Chair of the Working group on the elaboration of the draft National Strategy on Human Rights.

2015 Co-Chair of the Working group on the elaboration of the draft Action Plan on Implementation of the National Strategy on Human Rights.

2014–2015 Deputy Head of the Interagency Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation and Export Controlof Ukraine.

Diplomatic Rank

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Language skills 

Mother tongue(s): Ukrainian

Other language(s): English, Spanish, Russian, French

Honours and rewards 

Order of Merit of Ukraine 3rd class

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