H.E. Mr Sergei N. MARTYNOV
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus

Born on February 22, 1953.
Graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations, summa cum laude (1975).

1975 – 1980 – Department of International Economic Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1980 – 1988 – Assistant of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
1988 – 1991 – Deputy Head, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1991 – 1992 – Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the United Nations, New York.
1992 – 1993 – Charge d’Affaires of the Republic of Belarus to the USA.
1993 – 1997 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the USA.
1997 – 2001 – First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus.
2001 – 2003 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Kingdom of Belgium, Head of the Mission of the Republic of Belarus to the European Communities, Head of the Mission of the Republic of Belarus to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Since March 2003 – Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus.

Speaks English, French and Swahili.
Married, has two sons.

Mr. Igor V. PETRISHENKO
First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus

Prof. Dr. Sc. Viktar A. GAISENAK
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus

Date and Place of Birth: June 6th, 1950, Belarus.

Education and Qualification: 1972 Diploma with Honors in Physics, Belarusian State University, Minsk.
1977 Ph.D. (Physics).
1990 Dr. Sc. Degree (Physics).

Work experience: 1972 – 1992 – researcher, lecturer, professor, Head of Physics Department, Belarusian State University.
1992 – 1994 – Minister for Education of Belarus.
1994 – 1996 – Rector, National Institute for Higher Education and Humanities.
1997 – 2000 – Member of Government, Head State Committee for Science and Technologies.
2000 – 2005 – Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Austria/Resident Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna.
March 2005 – Appointed Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Other: Author of more than 150 scientific publications, patents and some books in physics, information technology and education. Since 1998 Editor-in-Chief, Scientific Journal “Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems”. State Prize Laureate in the field of Science and Technology. Fellow of a number of national and international science and educational academies.
Married, has a daughter.

Mr. Valery I. VORONETSKY
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus

Born on 14 October 1963 in the city of Minsk, Belarus.
Graduated from the Belarusian National Technical University (1985) and the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1995) where majored in international economic relations. PhD in economics.

1985 – 1987 – professor, Minsk Polytechnic College.
1987 – 1993 – senior staff member, republican youth organizations.
1993 – 1995 – studies in the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
1995 – 1996 – foreign policy advisor, Office of the President of the Republic of Belarus.
1996 – 1997 – counsellor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus.
1997 – 2000 – counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Belarus to Belgium/Mission of Belarus to EC.
2000 – 2002 – Head, Department of Foreign Policy at the Office of the President of the Republic of Belarus.
2002 – Oct. 2006 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Slovak Republic.
Oct. 2006 – present – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus.

Speaks English, German and Slovak.
Married with two children.

Mr. Andrei A. YEUDACHENKA
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus

Born on 11 March 1958 in Sсhwerin, Germany.
Graduated from Minsk State Linguistic University in 1980.

1982 – 1985 – professor, Minsk Architecture & Construction College.
1985 – 1988 – technical expert, United Republic of Tanzania.
1988 – 1990 – expert in marketing and advertising, “Amkodor” foreign trade company, road-building & construction machinery research and industrial group “Dormash”.
1990 – 1992 – senior officer, Protocol Unit, Chief of Protocol, State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations of the Republic of Belarus.
1992 – 1994 – Deputy Director, Department for Regulation of Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of the Republic of Belarus.
1994 – 1997 – first secretary, counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Belarus to Belgium/Mission of Belarus to EC.
1998 – 2000 – Head of OSCE Unit – deputy Director of Department for Regional Cooperation, Director of Department for International Economic Cooperation, Director of Department of Europe, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus.
2000 – 2004 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Hungary.
2004 – Oct.2006 – Ambassador at Large, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus.
Oct.2006 – present – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus.

Speaks English and French.
Married with two children.