Welcome to the United Nations
Chair:
H.E. Mr. Valentin Rybakov, President or Vice President of ECOSOC
High-Level Political Forum 2019
Under the auspices of ECOSOC and General Assembly
9 - 18 July 2019 New YorkBiographies
H.E. Mr. Valentin Rybakov
Vice President of Economic and Social Council, on the messages from ECOSOC Integration Segment
H.E. Ambassador Valentin Rybakov has served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belarus since 2013, prior to which he was Assistant to the President from 2006 to 2013. From 2005 to 2006 he headed the Ministry’s American Division (2005) and from 2003 to 2005 he served as Counsellor/Minister Counsellor in the Embassy of Belarus in the United States.
He has also worked with his country’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, serving as Counsellor from 2001 to 2003.
Having joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus in 1993, Mr. Rybakov is a graduate of the Minsk State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages.
Born in 1958 in Tomsk, Russian Federation, Mr. Rybakov has one son.
