His Excellency Mr. Ihor Ostash

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

of Ukraine to Canada

January 30, 2007

Presented to Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michëlle Jean, Government General of Canada, the Letters of Credence accrediting him as Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada

October 24, 2006

Appointed Representative of Ukraine to International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)

September 11, 2006

Appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Canada

1999 - 2005

Vice-President, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

2002 - 2006

Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs

1999 - 2002

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs

1998 - 1999

Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Treaties of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs

1998 - 2002

Member of Parliament of Ukraine

1994 - 1998

Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs

1991 - 1994

Director of the International School of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

1988 - 1991

Scientific secretary of the Literature, Language and Art division of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

1983 - 1988

Senior researcher, junior scientific researcher at the Institute of Languages of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

1982 - 1985

Graduate student at the Institute of Languages of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

August 4, 1959

Was born in Lviv region, Ukraine

Speaks English, French, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Serbian and Croatian

Married to Mrs. Maryna Hrymych and has a daughter and a son