Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Rwanda
Viacheslav Yatsiuk was appointed Ukraine’s Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda in December 2024.
From August 2022 to October 2023, he served as the Director General for International Security at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
From June 2016 to August 2022, he was Ukraine’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway.
From 2014 to 2016, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine as Ambassador-at-Large.
From 2012 to 2014, he was the Political Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. In 2012-2013 as the Head of the OSCE Chairmanship Task Force he coordinated the activities relating to Ukraine’s 2013 OSCE Chairmanship. During that period, he was also the coordinator of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Working Group on the Signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union.
From 2010 until 2012 he served as the Minister Counsellor, Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Russian Federation.
From 2005 to 2009, he was posted to London where he worked as Counsellor, and later as Minister Counsellor, Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Ukraine in the United Kingdom.
From 2000 to 2005, he held various diplomatic positions in the Foreign Policy Directorate within the Administration of the President of Ukraine. From 2002 to 2004 he worked as the Head of the Department for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, and in 2004 he was appointed Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Directorate. During that period, he was a member of several intergovernmental structures, including the Committee on Co-operation between Ukraine and the European Union, the Ukrainian-American Foreign Policy Committee, the Ukrainian-British Consultative Mechanism and some others.
From 1997 to 2000 he was posted to New York where he worked in the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations. From 1997 to 1998, he acted as advisor for political affairs to the President of the 52nd session of the UN General Assembly. When Ukraine was elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 2000-2001 term, he served as his country’s alternate representative on this body.
He started his diplomatic career in August 1995 in the Department of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
Viacheslav Yatsiuk graduated with distinction from the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 1995.
He is awarded the Order of Danylo Halytsky and received several other national awards of Ukraine.