Nestor Gayowsky

Nestor Gayowsky is a former Canadian diplomat. From 1981 to 1983, he was posted to Moscow as Trade Commissioner, becoming in i1989 Executive Director of the Canada-Soviet Union Trade Task Force. In December 1990 he became Canada’s first domestic diplomatic representative to the Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republics and Consul General. In December 1991, Nestor delivered Canada’s formal diplomatic recognition of Ukraine to the newly elected President. Subsequently he had the honor of establishing Canada’s Embassy in Kiev in January 1992 as Charge d’Affaires.