New Permanent Representative of Ukraine Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk, the new Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Tsymbaliuk served as Special Envoy of Ukraine to the International Atomic Energy Agency since August 2024, and as Ambassador-at-Large on Human Rights, Gender Equality and Diversity for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine since January 2024.

Mr. Tsymbaliuk served as Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the International Organizations in Vienna from July 2019 to December 2023.  From April 2015 to June 2018, he served as Ambassador of Ukraine to Kenya, concurrently serving as non-resident Ambassador to the Union of the Comoros, and as Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Environment Programme and to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme from October 2015 to June 2018.  He also served as non-resident Ambassador to Rwanda from December 2015 to June 2018, and Tanzania from June 2015 to June 2018.

He has also held high-level domestic roles within the Ukrainian Government, including as Deputy Director-General of the Department for International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2019); First Deputy Head of the Directorate of Strategic Planning and Operational Support of the Administration of the President (2018-2019); and Deputy Director-General of the Secretariat of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (2012-2015).

Mr. Tsymbaliuk obtained a master’s degree in history at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where he also completed studies in English and German, and gained a second master’s degree in German language education at the Kyiv National Linguistic University.  Born on 30 May 1972 in Magdeburg, Germany, he is fluent in English and German, and is married and has one daughter.

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