Kuchma names new envoy to U.S.

by Roman Woronowycz
Kyiv Press Bureau

KYIV - President Leonid Kuchma appointed Mykhailo Reznyk as ambassador to the United States on November 10.

Mr. Reznyk, 53, will take up his post after serving as Ukraine's ambassador to China and Mongolia since October 2001. Prior to that appointment, Mr. Reznyk served as ambassador to South Korea. In 1994-1997 he was the head of the economic-trade mission of Ukraine in the U.S.

Mr. Reznyk was born in 1950 in the Russian town of Donhuzkyi, Orenburg Oblast. He finished university studies at the Kyiv Trade and Economic Institute in 1973. Afterwards he worked in various positions at the Ministry of Trade of the Ukrainian SSR. After Ukraine's independence, Mr. Reznyk became vice minister of external economic relations before his appointment to lead Ukraine's trade mission in the U.S. in 1994

Mr. Reznyk is married and has a daughter. He replaces Ambassador Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, who became Ukraine's minister of foreign affairs in September.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, November 16, 2003, No. 46, Vol. LXXI

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