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1. The process of formation of legislative and executive authorities had its

origins in the Second Universal, which was proclaimed by the Ukrainian

Tsentralna Rada on 16 July 1917 and ____________________________

_______________, known as the General Secretariat. From the very first

days of its existence, a Secretariat for International Affairs began functioning

within the framework of the General Secretariat. The Secre tariat for

International Affairs became the predecessor of the first Ukrainian foreign

policy entity of the 20th century. Volodymyr Vynnychenko, the Head of the

General Secretariat of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, pro claimed by the

Third Universal of the Ukrainian Tsentralna Rada, and Oleksandr Shulhyn,

the Secretary General for International Affairs, signed a “Draft Law on the

Establishment of the General Secretariat for For eign Affairs” on 22 December

1917, which on that very day was approved at the meeting of the Government

of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UPR).