Astana, April 19 Kazakh envoy to India Yerlan Alimbayev has been appointed deputy foreign minister of Kazakhstan.
“By the order of the Head of State, Yerlan Altynbaevich Alimbayev was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan,” the message says.
Yerlan Alimbaev was born on January 6, 1975 in the Kyzylorda region. Graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the Al-Farabi Kazakh State University, as well as a master’s degree from the Geneva Institute of Diplomacy and International Relations.
Has been working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1997. He began his diplomatic career as an assistant in the Department of Asia, the Middle East and Africa and rose to the rank of Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 2008-2010, he worked as Deputy Director of the Asia and Africa Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
In various years, he held diplomatic posts in the embassies of Kazakhstan in India and the Republic of Korea, as well as the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva.
Prior to his appointment as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, he was the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to India.
Has the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the II class.