A nation must think before it acts.
 
                                                        Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations
Sergiy Olehovych Kyslytsya is a Ukrainian career diplomat, who serves as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. He had previously served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
November 2022 – present – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (non-resident). October 2021 – present – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (non-resident). 2014 – 2020 – Deputy Foreign Minister. 2006 – 2014 – Director-General for International Organizations (Directorate-general for the United Nations and Other International Organizations of the MFA of Ukraine until November 2011). Sergiy Olehovych Kyslytsya is a Ukrainian career diplomat, who serves as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. He had previously served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. 2006 – Deputy Director-general of the Second Territorial Department (The Americas & W. Europe), MFA of Ukraine. 2003 – 2005 – Minister-Counselor, DCM (political), Embassy of Ukraine in the United States of America. 2001 – 2003 – Political Counselor, Embassy of Ukraine in the United States of America.
2000 – 2001 – Senior Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Group of Advisers and Ambassadors at Large, MFA, Ukraine. 1998 – 2000 – Chief of Staff of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine 1996 – 1998 – Second, First Secretary (political), Special Assistant to the Ambassador, Embassy of Ukraine to Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg and Mission of Ukraine to NATO; contact point for WEU-Ukraine (Brussels). 1994 – 1996 – Head, a.i., of the Council of Europe Section, MFA, Ukraine; Special Assistant to the Deputy, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine. 1993 – Attaché, Third secretary of the CSCE and European Regional Cooperation Department of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine. 1992 – Intern at the CSCE and European Regional Cooperation Department of the MFA of Ukraine.