Kuleba Dmytro Ivanovych was born on April 19, 1981 in the city of Sumy, former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration under the government of Oleksii Honcharuk, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
He is the son of diplomat Ivan Kuleba and holds the Order of Merit, III degree, is a Candidate of Law since 2006.
In 2003, Dmytro Kuleba graduated with honors from the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, majoring in international law.
In 2004-2005, he was a postgraduate student at the Department of International Law of the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He is fluent in Ukrainian, English and russian, and at a lower level - in French.
Since 2003, he has held the position of Attaché of the Service of the Chief Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. By 2010, he had risen to the position of First Secretary, Advisor, and Head of the Department of the Secretariat of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
In 2013, he became an advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Kostiantyn Hryshchenko, on humanitarian issues.
Since March 4, 2020, he has been the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in the government of Denys Shmyhal.
On September 5, 2024, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Dmytro Kuleba from his position.
He is credited with saying that the Ukrainian language is "the fabric that unites society."
Dmytro Kuleba believes that Ukraine needs to find a balanced solution to the issue of the possibility of introducing dual citizenship. At the same time, he notes that dual citizenship is unacceptable for civil servants and government officials and emphasizes that there can be no talk of dual citizenship with the aggressor state russia.
In August 2024, a scandal erupted in Poland over Dmytro Kuleba's statement on the issue of exhumations and Operation Wisła at a panel discussion in Olsztyn, where he was with his Polish colleague Radosław Sikorski. Kuleba was asked when Poland would be able to exhume those killed during the events of 1943-1945 in Volyn. In response, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spoke about Operation Wisła in 1947, the forced resettlement of Ukrainians from Poland, and called the lands on which the operation was carried out Ukrainian territories.
Dmytro Kuleba is divorced, has two children born in 2006 and 2011.
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