NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF KAZAKHSTAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Amanzhol Zhankuliyev, the new Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations Office in Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Zhankuliyev had been serving as Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to France since 2005. From 2003 to 2005, he was Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to Turkey, and from 2001 to 2003, he was Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to Tajikistan.

Mr. Zhankuliyev started his professional life in the academic and education field before auditing classes at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR from 1984 to 1987. From 1987 to 1989, he was Second Secretary at the Asia Department at the Ministry, and from 1989 to 1992, he was Second Secretary at the Embassy of the USSR to Viet Nam. From 1993, he was First Secretary at the America Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, before serving at the Kazakhstan Embassy in France until 1995.

Mr. Zhankuliyev has degrees from the Institute of Foreign Languages in Almaty (1972); the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1987) and Cours supérieurs de langues étrangeres in Moscow (1992). He was born on 20 January 1952 and is married with three children.


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