Borys Tarasyuk is MP (2002-2005, 2006, 2007-till now), Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) Committee on European Integration. As a carrier diplomat since 1975 he served in Ukrainian mission to the UN (1981-1986) and Ambassador in Brussels (1995-1998, BENILUX, NATO, WEU), Deputy FM (1992-1994), First Deputy (1994-1995) and two terms as a Foreign Minister (1998-2000 and 2005-2007). He is Chairman of the party "People's movement of Ukraine" (Rukh) since May, 2003, member of political leadership of Our Ukraine Block. Borys Tarasyuk is the Founder and Director of the Institute of Euro-Atlantic cooperation, which is an independent analytical center (think-tank). Has the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (since 1992). He contributed to the development of relations of Ukraine with Russia and the United States, Hungary and Poland, Romania and Moldova, Baltic and Nordic States, Latin America and the Black Sea region, the European Union and NATO, CIS and GUAM. In 1993 Ambassador Tarasyuk managed to forge the unanimous support of the UN Security Council for Ukraine in the dispute with Russia over the Ukrainian port city of Sevastopol. He was one of the key figures in the negotiations of unprecedented complexity over the fate of Ukraine's nuclear arsenal (world's third largest), the Black Sea Fleet and conventional armaments. His efforts to activate the significant peacekeeping potential of Ukraine in combination with active diplomacy transformed Ukraine into a recognized contributor of European security and stability. In 1997 he was a winner of the national nomination "Diplomat of the Year", is decorated with the highest state awards of Argentina, Brazil, France, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Sweden and is the full cavalier of the State Order of Merit of Ukraine.