title: Yurii Kostenko
text: # Yurii Kostenko
  
  Yurii Vasylyovych Kostenko (Ukrainian: Юрій Васильович Костенко) (born 1945) is a Ukrainian diplomat. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the People's Republic of China.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Born in the city of Kyiv November 6, 1945. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (1968), department of history;
  
  1968 – 1971 – Attaché, Third Secretary, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic;
  
  1971 – 1972 – Service in the Armed Forces;
  
  1972 – 1975 – Third Secretary in the reserve, Third, Second Secretary of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
  
  1975 – 1984 – Assistant to the Minister, First Secretary, Counselor, Department of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
  
  1984 – 1985 – Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian SSR Commission on UNESCO affairs;
  
  1985 – 1988 – Head of the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
  
  1988 – 1994 – Permanent Representative of Ukraine to International Organizations in Vienna;
  
  1992 – 1994 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Austrian Republic; Head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Vienna negotiations of security and cooperation in Europe;
  
  1994 – 1997 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Germany;
  
  1997 – 2001 – Ambassador-at-Large, Inspector-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
  
  2001 – 2006 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Japan
  
  2004 – 2006 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Philippines
  
  2006 – 2008 – Deputy minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
  
  2008 – 2009 – Acting First Deputy minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
  
  August 2009 – 12.09.2012 — Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the People's Republic of China.
  
  