Ambassador Khvostov previously served in Washington from 1992 to 1993 as first secretary at the Embassy of Belarus, as well as first secretary at the Belarus Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York (1991-92). More recently, Ambassador Khvostov served as ambassador to Canada (1997-2000) before becoming an adviser to the president of Belarus, deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs (2000-03). Ambassador Khvostov also served as his nation’s deputy minister of foreign affairs (1994-97) and as director of the State Protocol Department and the Legal and Treaties Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1993-94), in addition to holding various posts within the ministry from 1982 to 1991.

The English- and French-speaking ambassador is a graduate of the Minsk State Institute of Foreign Languages and the Belarusian State University. He is married with two children.