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- 25.08.2023 15:33:00
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ASTANA, August 25 - Sputnik. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a decree appointing a new country's ambassador to Belarus.
Yerlan Baizhanov has been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Belarus, Permanent Representative to the Statutory Bodies of the CIS concurrently, Akorda's press service reports.
He has been relieved of his post as Ambassador to Vietnam, to the Kingdom of Cambodia, and to the Lao People's Democratic Republic concurrently.
Kanat Tumysh, who previously held the position of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, was appointed to his place.
By another decree, Askar Beisenbaev was dismissed from the post of Ambassador to Belarus, Permanent Representative to the Statutory Bodies of the CIS concurrently.
Appointments at the Foreign Ministry
The president also appointed two deputy foreign ministers - Alibek Bakaev and Nazira Nurbaeva.
By order of the head of state, Almas Aidarov was relieved of the post of deputy minister.
What is known about Bayzhanov after Kazakhstan in Belarus
Yerlan Baizhanov was born in 1962 in Almaty. In 1985 he graduated from the Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, a journalist by training. PhD in Philology (major in journalism).
He began his career in 1985 as an editor of allied information for KazTAG abroad. Then he entered the graduate school of the journalism faculty of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, from which he graduated in 1988.
Over the years, he worked as the first secretary, head of the information and press department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, head of the sector, deputy head of the presidential press service.
He held the post of Counselor-Envoy of the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Russia, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the CSTO (concurrently).
He worked as a press secretary of the President of Kazakhstan, headed the national information holding "Arna Media", was the managing director of the NWF "Samruk-Kazyna".
In 2019, he was appointed Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Vietnam, to the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic concurrently.
