Zelenskyy proposes appointing Sybiha as FM

12:54, 05.09.2024 1 min read

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposes appointing First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andriy Sybiha as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Corresponding draft decree No. 12019 of September 5 was published on the website of the Verkhovna Rada.

Andriy Sybiha has been the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine since 2024. From 2021 to 2024, he was Deputy Head of the President's Office of Ukraine. Before that, in 2016-2021, he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Türkiye.

The candidacies of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Defense are submitted to parliament by the head of state.