The Ukrainian parliament has approved the appointment of Pavlo Klimkin as the new minister of foreign affairs. The resolution also proposed by Petro Poroshenko has gained support of 335 lawmakers with the necessary minimum of 226.
Klimkin has been working for Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1993. In 2008, he became director of the department for European Union, and in 2010 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. As a deputy minister, Klimkin was holding negotiations on the Association Agreement with the EU. In 2012, he was appointed ambassador of Ukraine to Germany. On the previous week, Petro Poroshenko has dismissed him from this post.