Alyaksandr Kanyuk

{{Short description|Belarusian jurist and statesman}}

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Alyaksandr Uladzimiravich Kanyuk ({{langx|be|Аляксандр Уладзіміравіч Канюк}}, {{langx|ru|Александр Владимирович Конюк|Aleksandr Vladimirovich Konyuk}}) (born 1960) is a Belarusian jurist and statesman, former Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus (2011–2020).

Kanyuk graduated from the Belarusian State University in 1982. He was a military judge for a long time, and a Supreme Court of Belarus judge since 2009 before becoming the Prosecutor General.{{cite web|url=http://naviny.by/rubrics/politic/2011/09/20/ic_news_112_376601|title=Александр Конюк назначен генеральным прокурором вместо Григория Василевича|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427115956/http://naviny.by/rubrics/politic/2011/09/20/ic_news_112_376601|archive-date=2017-04-27|work=Naviny.by|url-status=dead|language=ru}}

After the disputed Belarusian presidential elections of 2020 he was sanctioned in relation to human rights violations in Belarus by the European Union.[https://www.svaboda.org/a/30870774.html 40 беларускіх чыноўнікаў, якія трапілі пад санкцыі Эўразьвязу. СЬПІС]

In 2020 he was appointed ambassador to Armenia.[https://web.archive.org/web/20210613205722/https://reform.news/181112-konjuk-i-ravkov-otpravleny-poslami-armeniju-i-azerbajdzhan Конюк и Равков отправлены послами в Армению и Азербайджан]