Kyrgyzstan has appointed new ambassador to Tajikistan. An appropriate decree on this subject was signed by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov on April 12.
By president/s decree Erlan Abdyldayev was appointed Kyrgyzstan’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Tajikistan, replacing Janysh Rustenbekov, who left Tajikistan in February this year in connection with the end of his tenure to the country.
Prior to this, Mr. Abdyldayev had served as Kyrgyzstan’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany since 2020.
September 6, 2012 – October 12, 2018, Erlan Abdyldayev served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan.
2007-2012, Mr. Abdyldayev served as head of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR)’s Representative Office in Kyrgyzstan.
In 2001, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kyrgyzstan to China, and the non-resident ambassador to Mongolia, Singapore, Thailand.
Abdyldayev was born on June 21, 1966, in Alma-Ata, the capital of the Kazakh SSR. In 1989, he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He worked in the Soviet / Russian Embassy in Beijing from 1989 to 1994.
Abdyldayev was born on June 21, 1966, in Alma-Ata, the capital of the Kazakh SSR. In 1989, he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
He speaks Russian, Chinese, and English as well as his native Kyrgyz.
Erlan Abdyldayev is married with two children.
