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28-772: Originally, the ministry was established as the General Secretariat of Nationalities as part of the General Secretariat of Ukraine and was headed by the federalist Serhiy Yefremov . Due to the Soviet intervention, the office was reformed into a ministry on December 22, 1917. About the same time, another government was formed (the Soviet) that proclaimed the Ukrainian government to be counter-revolutionary. The Ukrainian Soviet government also reorganized its office on March 1, 1918. In 1923,

56-659: A former head commissioner of the Provisional Government of Galicia and Bucovina, was offered to create a new Secretariat. The Mala Rada has confirmed his selections already on August 14, but soon Doroshenko resigned on August 18. Finally Vynnychenko came back to accomplish the task and on September 1 the Provisional Government confirmed the new administration. Until January 1918 the Secretariat conducted 63 meetings where were reviewed 430 various issues of political, economical, military, and diplomatic character. In October 1917,

84-675: The Council of People's Ministers after the declaration of the Fourth Universal and the independence of the Ukrainian People's Republic . Initially the government was located at the same location as the Central Rada at 54 vulytsia Volodymyrska (Volodymyr Street), however Volodymyr Vynnychenko knew that it could not last for long as it only had two rooms assigned in the mediocre building. The government soon moved to 38 Khreshchatyk Street in

112-838: The Freemasonry and became one of the five prominent Masons in Russia (the other four being Aleksandr Konovalov , Alexander Kerensky , Nikolai Nekrasov , and Ivan Yefremov ). Mikhail Tereshchenko was a member of the Fourth State Duma (he shared the views of the Russian Progressive Party ). In 1912–1914, Tereshchenko was the owner of a private publishing house Sirin in St Petersburg , which published Andrey Bely 's pioneering novel Petersburg in three installments in 1913–1914. During World War I , he took part in organizing

140-799: The Red Cross hospitals. In 1915–1917, Mikhail Tereshchenko was the chairman of the Military Industry Committee of the Kiev district and deputy chairman of the All-Russian Military Industry Committee. After the February Revolution of 1917, Mikhail Tereshchenko was appointed Minister of Finance of the Provisional Kerensky Government . In April 1917, Tereshchenko (together with Kerensky and Nekrasov)

168-548: The Russian Provisional Government stopped the transfer of funds to the General Secretariat and expressed its intentions to file a claim against its members for separatism and the participation in the All-Ukrainian Constituent Assembly . The Russian government requested an appearance of Volodymyr Vynnychenko personally for the full explanation in that regard. On October 21 at the meeting of

196-567: The Russian Provisional Government , which was approved by the Central Rada and proclaimed as the first Constitution. Those Negotiations ended with that the Prime Minister of Russia , Aleksandr Kerensky , signed the Instruction for the General Secretariat of the Provisional Government in Ukraine , a legal normative act, that was binding the local government of Ukraine for its execution. According to

224-713: The Tereshchenko blue diamond , sold in 1984 for $ 4.6 million, by Christie's later on, to Robert Mouawad, a famous Lebanese jeweller. Tereshchenko was one of the supporters of allied intervention in Soviet Russia . In 1920s and 1930s, he was engaged in financial activities in France and Madagascar . Tereshchenko was an active member of the irregular freemasonic lodge, the Grand Orient of Russia’s Peoples . Along with Kerensky, Alexander Galpern , Yefremov, Kolyubakin and Nekrasov, he

252-625: The Ukrainian Parliament . Ukraine has been a member of UNESCO since May 12, 1954. From December 1962 Ukraine had established its permanent representation in the organization currently served by the Ambassador of Ukraine to France. The National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO was created as part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Presidential decree #212/1996 on March 26, 1996. The Chair of

280-463: The Instruction, the General Secretariat had limited powers, but was acknowledged as the highest institution of the Provisional Government in Ukraine and authority of which stretched upon five gubernias Volyn , Podillia , Poltava , Kiev , and partially Chernihiv . The Russian Provisional Government requested the Secretariat to be reduced to nine members and that all of the members will be appointed by

308-575: The National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO is Sergiy Kyslytsya . The permanent representative of Ukraine to UNESCO is the Ambassador to France Kostiantyn Tymoshenko . Ukraine has 14 academic departments cooperating with UNESCO as well as 63 schools associated with the organization. General Secretariat of Ukraine [REDACTED] Ukraine The General Secretariat of Ukraine ( Ukrainian : Генеральний секретаріат УЦР—УНР , romanized :  Heneralnyi sekretariat UTsR–UNR )

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336-470: The Palace has suffered greatly during the military actions in 1920 and was replaced by other building changing the address to 20/8 Institute Street. Mikhail Tereshchenko Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko ( Russian : Михаи́л Ива́нович Тере́щенко ; Ukrainian : Михайло Іванович Терещенко ; 18 March 1886 – 1 April 1956) was the foreign minister of Russia from 18 May 1917 to 7 November 1917 ( N.S. ) . He

364-501: The Popov building (22 vulytsia Hrushevskoho). Today in place of the former hotel is located the building of Ministry of Energy and Fuel. The General Secretariat was finally able to move to the former Palace of Governor-General in Kiev at 40 vulytsia Instytutska (Institute Street) in January 1918, while the hotel "Savvoi" after being restored was also secured after the Ukrainian government. Later

392-690: The Russian Government by the recommendations of the Tsentralna Rada . The secretariats of the military affairs, food and legal affairs, and postmaster-telegraph were to be canceled. After some negotiations the Tsentralna Rada yielded to the request on August 7, followed by the resignation of Volodymyr Vynnychenko as a sign of protest and pressure from the Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionary Party . Mala Rada has accepted his resignation on August 13. Dmytro Doroshenko ( UPSF ),

420-496: The Secretariat was reviewed the issue of sending delegation to Petrograd headed by Vynnychenko together with Steshenko and Zarubin for the negotiations with the Provisional Government in reference to the political situation in Ukraine. That intention was ceased due to the change of power in the country with the utilization of the military force. After the October Revolution of 1917 the Secretariat further expanded to supplement

448-468: The building of former hotel "Savvoi" which was not preserved after World War II . Currently at that location exists the building of the Kyiv City Council (36 Khreshchatyk Street). The first government budget was adopted on August 30, 1917. The proposition to move to the building of "Savvoi" hotel came up on the session of the Central Rada on September 13, 1917, with intentions to lease the place from

476-530: The city government, under jurisdiction of which the hotel was. The General Secretariat was allowed to move to "Savvoi" sometime in late September 1917, however that place was decided to be a temporary due to the physical conditions of the building. Vynnychenko tried to acquire the Mariinskyi Palace from the "Worker's and Soldier's Deputies", but unsuccessfully. Other interests were posed by the hotel "Frantsiya" (corner of Khreshchatyk and Prorizna vulytsia) and

504-512: The members of the General Secretariat along with Mykhailo Hrushevsky after some discussion worked out the new Universal of the UPR and the Declaration of the Russian Provisional Government that were announced on July 3. On July 13, 1917, the Russian Provisional Government recognized the Secretariat as the highest executive power in Ukraine and requested from the Tsentralna Rada that the members of

532-525: The ministries of the collapsed Provisional Government. After the proclamation of the Third Universal on November 20, 1917, several members of secretariat resigned. Then on January 6, 1918, Symon Petliura was commissioned to take the charge of the Haydamaka Kish . By start of 1918 the Secretariat has changed dramatically. On January 25 (dated January 22), 1918 the General Secretariat was transformed into

560-569: The office was liquidated by the government of the Soviet Union and reinstated in 1944, twenty years later. The first Soviet representatives were not of much note until the appointment of the Bulgarian native Christian Rakovsky in 1919. The office would remain in operation even after Ukraine's restoration of independence in 1991. The ministry is located in Ukraine's capital Kyiv in the city's historic uppertown district, located in close proximity to

588-702: The plenum meeting of the Central Council of Ukraine on June 26 by the head of the Secretariat, Volodymyr Vynnychenko . The document together with the First Universal caused a lot of worrying in Petrograd as precedent to possible separation. It only took several days when the official delegation led by Aleksandr Kerensky together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Tereschenko and Minister of Post and Telegraph Tsereteli arrived to Kiev . The Russian delegation and

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616-531: The proclamation of the 1st Universal of the Central Council of Ukraine, however many contemporary historians have other opinions in that regard. The initial composition of the secretariat included eight General Secretaries (ministers) and one General Scribe (secretary). The first document of the government that identified its program was the Declaration of the General Secretariat . It was publicly announced at

644-596: The recently rebuilt St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery . The building of the ministry is also located on the Mykhailivska Square, named for the monastery and next to the park Volodymyrska Hill . The nomination of the Foreign Minister is done by the President of Ukraine , unlike most nominations of Cabinet Minister which are done by the Prime Minister of Ukraine . All minister nominations have to be approved by

672-545: The secretariat ought to be confirmed by the Russian Government. The Secretariat would be expanded to include members of minorities and would be responsible to the Rada. By the end of July 1917 five more secretariats were added due to the Provisional Government request. In course of the next round of negotiations now in Petrograd the Ukrainian delegation was requesting the acceptance of the General Secretariat Statute by

700-600: Was actively seeking to create a governmental interparty coalition with the Socialists. On 5 May 1917, he was appointed minister of foreign affairs after the resignation of Pavel Milyukov . Tereshchenko continued his foreign policy course, which led to his conflict with Minister of War Alexander Verkhovsky , who had considered Russia to be unable to continue the war. He was a member of the Directorate in September 1917. Tereshchenko

728-557: Was also a major Ukrainian landowner, the proprietor of several sugar factories, and a financier . Born to a rich Tereshchenko family of a sugar factory owners, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and art patrons of Ivan Nikolaevich (1854–1903) and Elizabeth Mikhailovna . Mikhail had a younger brother Mykola (1894–?). His uncle Aleksandr Tereshchenko (1856–1911) worked in Saint-Petersburg . Mikhail Tereshchenko graduated from Kiev University and Leipzig University . In 1910, he joined

756-565: Was known to support the Ukrainian government that led to the establishment and recognition of the General Secretariat in Ukraine 1917. On the night of 26 October, Mikhail Tereshchenko was arrested in the Winter Palace with other ministers of the Provisional Government and placed into the Peter and Paul Fortress while his office was temporarily held by Anatoly Neratov . In the spring of 1918, Tereshchenko escaped from prison and fled to Norway with

784-579: Was the autonomous Ukrainian executive government of the Russian Republic from June 28, 1917, to January 22, 1918. For most of its existence it was headed by Volodymyr Vynnychenko . The secretariat was created after the Central Council of Ukraine accepted a proposal of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries . According to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine , this event took place five days after

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