Vitaly Churkin
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Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin (born February 21, 1952 in Moscow) is the current Permanent Representative (Ambassador) of the Russian Federation to the United Nations. He replaced Andrey I. Denisov on May 1, 2006, when he presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan.
He graduated from the Moscow Institute for Foreign Affairs in 1974, and began working for them then, and received a PhD in history from the USSR Diplomatic Academy in 1981. He was then Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)/ Russian Federation. He also served as a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, and was Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation from 1992 to 1994.
Prior to his current diplomatic post, Churkin was his country’s Ambassador to Belgium from 1994 to 1998, and to Canada from 1998 to 2003. He was then Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, a post he held from 2003 to 2006.
He is also the chairman of the Senior Officials of the Arctic Council. He is fluent in French and English.
1974 - graduated from the Moscow Institute for Foreign Affairs
1981 - PhD in history from the USSR Diplomatic Academy
1974 - joined the USSR Foreign Ministry
1974-79 - staff member of the USSR delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
1979-82 - third secretary, US desk, USSR Foreign Ministry
1982-87 - second, first secretary, USSR Embassy in Washington DC
1987-89 - staff member, International Department, CPSU Central Committee
1989-90 - special adviser to the USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs
1990-91 - Director, Information Department, Spokesman of the USSR Foreign Ministry
1992-94 - Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation to the talks on Former Yugoslavia
1994-98 - Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Belgium, Liaison Ambassador to NATO and WEU
1998-2003 - Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Canada
2003 - April 2006 - Ambassador at Large, MFA, Chairman of Senior Arctic Officials, Arctic Council, Senior Official of Russia at the Barents/Euro-Arctic Council
In 1985 he undertook a speaking tour of United States universities invited by USGov .
April 8, 2006 - Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, Representative of the Russian Federation at the UN Security Council Diplomatic rank - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1990)
[edit] External links
- Russian mission to the UN
- New Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation Presents Credentials - UN press release
- Arctic Council home page
| Preceded by Andrey I. Denisov |
Russian Ambassador to the United Nations 2006 - |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
