Yerzhan kazykhanov biography channel

Since February 2017, the ambassador of Kazakhstan to the U.S.

has been Yerzhan Khozeyevich Kazykhanov, a career diplomat who has served in the U.S. before. He presented his credentials to President Donald Trump on April 24, 2017.

He served as ambassador to Ireland from to and was appointed, for the second time, as director general for policy planning.

Friendly ties: Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov meets with Yukio Hatoyama, a former prime minister and head of the Parliamentary League.

Secretary General of the Turkic Council Ambassador Ramil Hasanov visited Yerzhan Kazykhanov, Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Washington DC.

2 Statement made by His Excellency, Mr. Yerzhan Kazykhanov, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United Nations, Third Committee on.

Former British PM Tony Blair has appeared in a promotional video for Kazakhstan praising "progress" in the former Soviet state.

The largest of the former Soviet republics, since 1989 Kazakhstan has been ruled with an iron fist by President Nursultan Nazarbayev, whose human rights record has been condemned worldwide. Kazykhanov, who served as ambassador to the United Kingdom prior to this appointment, holds the diplomatic rank of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary.

 

Born on August 21, 1964, in Almaty, Kazakhstan SSR, which was then part of the Soviet Union, Yerzhan Kazykhanov earned his bachelor’s degree in Oriental Studies from the Leningrad [Saint Petersburg] State University in Russia, in 1987.

 

During his two-year stint in the Soviet Army from 1987 to 1989, Kazykhanov watched as the Soviet Union began to disintegrate around him.

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