Anton Buteyko

Anton Buteyko trained in international law at Kyiv University and entered the Ukrainian Soviet foreign ministry in 1974. He worked in international organizations, assisted the foreign minister, and served in the United Nations Secretariat in New York. Back in Kyiv, he handled treaty and legal affairs before becoming an international affairs adviser to independent Ukraine's president. As a parliamentarian in 1994–1995, he worked on public debt, currency regulation, and the constitutional commission. ¹

Buteyko became first deputy foreign minister in 1995 and served as ambassador to the United States in 1998–1999, with concurrent accreditation to Mexico. He later represented Ukraine in Romania. In September 2003 he resigned that post in protest against the agreement to establish a Single Economic Space with Russia. He returned as first deputy foreign minister in 2005–2006 and continued publishing on public and international law. He died in Kyiv in March 2019. ^{1, 2}