Sergei Fyodorovich Aleinik (Belarusian: Сяргей Фёдаравіч Алейнік, romanized: Syarhey Fyodaravich Aleynik; born 28 January 1965) is a Belarusian politician who serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus.
Sergei Aleinik | |
|---|---|
| Сяргей Алейнік Сергей Алейник | |
.jpg) Aleinik in 2019 | |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| Assumed office 13 December 2022 | |
| President | Alexander Lukashenko |
| Prime Minister | Roman Golovchenko |
| Preceded by | Vladimir Makei |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 January 1965 Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Minsk State Linguistic University |
Early life and education edit
Sergei Aleinik was born and raised in Belarus. He studied German and English at the Minsk State Pedagogic Institute of Foreign Languages and the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. He taught both subjects for years. In the early 1990s, Aleinik enrolled for a post-graduate study in International Relations at The Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria.
Career edit
He began his career as an academic teaching German and English. Following Belarusian independence in the 1990s, Aleinik joined the foreign ministry of Belarus. In 1995, he embarked on his first diplomatic posting at a consul in The Hague and later became the chargé d'affaires in the Netherlands. While in the Netherlands, he was promoted to the rank of ambassador and deployed to the United Nations Office in Geneva with accreditation to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta.[1] In Malta, he was awarded the Grand Cross pro Merito Melitensi of the Sovereign Order of Malta.
In 2009, he was appointed deputy foreign minister of Belarus in charge of bilateral relations with African, Asian and South American countries with specific task to widen Belarusian diplomatic relations.[2] During his term in office, he established diplomatic relations with Nigeria, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Brazil.[3]
In December 2022, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus.[4]
References edit
- ^ "First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs S.Aleinik meets the Ambassador of Mongolia". belarusfacts.by. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
- ^ "Meeting with Belarusian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Aleinik". U.S. Embassy in Belarus. 2021-01-15. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
- ^ "Aleinik: NATO will eventually see the need to build contacts with the CSTO". eng.belta.by. 2022-02-09. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
- ^ "Lukashenko appoints minister of foreign affairs, commander of Air Force and Air Defense". eng.belta.by. 2022-12-13.