Kazakh diplomat appointed secretary general of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking countries
ASTANA, September 3, 2018 – During the 6th meeting of the Council of Cooperation of Turkic Speaking Countries (SSTG) in Cholpon-Ata, the well-known Kazakhstani diplomat Baghdad Amreev was appointed Secretary General of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking countries by the decision of the heads of the SSTC states.
B. Amreev is a personnel diplomat, held various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, worked as an ambassador to Saudi Arabia (Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and UAE concurrently), Egypt (Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Jordan and Libya), Turkey (Albania in part-time). Recently he was the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Kazakhstan in Iran. He speaks Kazakh, Russian, Arabic, English, Turkish and Persian.
B. Amreev is the author of the books “Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia”, “Monarchies of the Persian Gulf”, “East and West: Challenges of Globalization”, “Donemimizde Kazakistan Türkiye Ilişkileri ve Türk Dünyasi” (Modern relations of Kazakhstan and Turkey and the Turkic world) and “Dogu ve Bati »(East and West).
The Council of Cooperation of Turkic-speaking States was established on the initiative of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on October 3
2009 in Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan) at the 9th Summit of the Heads of Turkic-speaking countries. At present, the Council includes Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey. To coordinate the interaction on an ongoing basis, the Secretariat of the Turkic Council operates with headquarters in Istanbul (Turkey).
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