{"id":1265889,"date":"2025-07-21T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelensky-appointed-16-new-ambassadors-who-received-the-positions\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:53:12","slug":"zelensky-appointed-16-new-ambassadors-who-received-the-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelensky-appointed-16-new-ambassadors-who-received-the-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky appointed 16 new ambassadors: who received the positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after a meeting with Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga, appointed 16 new ambassadors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/15201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> this on his Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;After the reports of the military and the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, this morning I held a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Office team. We finalized the long process of selecting candidates for appointment as ambassadors of Ukraine. I appointed 16 ambassadors,&#8221; Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n<p> He also added that each new ambassador was given tasks and evaluation criteria.<\/p>\n<p> Diplomatic positions were awarded to:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> Spain \u2014 Yulia Sokolovska<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Canada \u2014 Andriy Plahotniuk<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Belgium \u2014 Yaroslav Melnyk<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Estonia \u2014 Volodymyr Boyechka<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> UAE and Representative of Ukraine to the International Renewable Energy Agency \u2014 Oleksandr Balanutsa<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Bosnia and Herzegovina \u2014 Volodymyr Bachynskyi<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Mexico \u2014 Sergey Pogoreltsev<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Japan \u2014 Yuri Lutovinov<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Kenya, UNEP and UN-Habitat \u2014 Yuriy Tokar<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Kuwait \u2014 Maxim Subh<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Oman \u2014 Olga Selikh<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Cyprus \u2014 Sergei Nizhinsky<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Malaysia \u2014 Gennady Nadolenko<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Angola \u2014 Andriy Kasyanov<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> South Africa \u2014 Oleksandr Shcherba<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/v-kozhnoho-ie-rotatsiynyy-tsykl-v-mzs-prokomentuvaly-zaminu-posla-v-ssha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to replace ambassadors in G20 countries, including the United States<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after a meeting with Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga, appointed 16 new ambassadors. He reported this on his Telegram channel. &#8220;After the reports of the military and the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, this morning I held a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Office team. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1265881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76873,76885,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1265889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-policy","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}