Ambassador in 2019-2022

H.E. Mr. Aleksandr Ponomarev

Born in Minsk in 1975.

1996 – graduated from the Law Faculty, Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of  the Republic of Belarus

2001 – graduated from the Foreign Policy and Diplomacy Faculty, Academy of Public Administration

1996–1997 – Attache, Department of International Security and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus

1997–2000 – Attache, Second Secretary, First Secretary, Department of Europe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2000–2004 – Second Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of  Belarus to the State of Israel

2004–2007 – First Secretary, Counsellor, Department of International  Security and Arms Control, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2007–2011 – Counsellor (disarmament), Permanent Mission of the Republic of Belarus at the UN Office in Geneva

2012–2014 – Deputy Head, Department of International  Arms Control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2014–2018 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Syrian Arab Republic (non-resident Ambassador to the Lebanese Republic and to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan)

2019–2022 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to Hungary (non-resident Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to the Republic of Croatia)

Languages: Belarusian – mother tongue, Russian, English – fluent; French, German – partial.

Married, has three sons.