President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed Aliona Hetmanchuk, director of the New Europe Center, as Head of Ukraine's mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), replacing Nataliia Halibarenko. This is stated in decrees No. 407 and No. 408 of June 13, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
"Appoint Hetmanchuk Aliona Anatoliivna as Head of the Mission of Ukraine to NATO," decree No. 408 states.
By decree No. 407, Zelenskyy dismissed Halibarenko from the post of Head of Ukraine's mission to NATO.
Hetmanchuk is director of the New Europe Center, founder and director of the Institute of World Policy (2009-2017).
According to the information on the website of the New Europe Center, Hetmanchuk is an experienced expert on foreign and security policy, having worked in the analytical sector since 2009. She has almost 15 years of experience as an international observer and editor. In March 2022, Hetmanchuk became a freelance senior analyst at the Atlantic Council's Eurasian Center.
In July 2021, Zelenskyy appointed former Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Nataliia Halibarenko as Ambassador to NATO. She was Ambassador to the United Kingdom in 2015-2020.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced that Ukraine has been invited to the NATO summit in The Hague (Netherlands), which will be held on June 24-25.
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