Education
Volodymyr Khandohiy graduated from the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv and started his diplomatic career in 1975.
Volodymyr Khandohiy graduated from the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv and started his diplomatic career in 1975.
Khandohiy was the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for six months in 2009. Khandohiy is a former Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg (2000-2005) and the Netherlands (2000-2002) and a former Head of the Mission of Ukraine to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (2000-2005). Between 1995 and 1998 and from December 27, 2005 till his appointment as acting Minister he was a Deputy Foreign Minister.
Khandohiy was the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, after (on March 3, 2009) his predecessor Volodymyr Ohryzko was fired by the Ukrainian Parliament.
On 9 October 2009 this parliament appointed Petro Poroshenko as foreign minister. In 2012 he said that Yevhen Khytrov was a victim of bad refereeing at the 20123 London Olympics.