President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has appointed Speaker for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Mariana Betsa as Ukraine’s Ambassador to Estonia.
“To appoint Mariana Oleksandrivna Betsa as extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Estonia,” reads Decree No. 282/2018 of Sept. 13, published on the presidential website.
Betsa earlier worked as an adviser to the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to international organizations in Vienna, at the Ukrainian Embassy in the Netherlands, she was a member of the Ukrainian legal team in the case of delimitation of the continental shelf of Ukraine and Romania in the Black Sea, considered at the International Court of Justice. She also defended the interests of Ukraine at the OSCE. She became speaker for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry in July 2015.
From 2010 to June 2017, Viktor Kryzhanivsky was Ukraine’s ambassador to Estonia. After his dismissal, he was appointed special envoy of Ukraine on the Transnistrian settlement.
