Kazakhstan names its Special Representative for Afghanistan
The Head of State decreed to appoint Ambassador-at-Large of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry Yerkin Tukumov as the Special Representative of Kazakhstan for Afghanistan, Kazinform News Agency learnt from the Akorda press service.
Earlier, the Head of State relieved him of his duties as the director of the Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Research under the Kazakh President.
Tukumov is a graduate of the Institute of International Relations, Warsaw University, Poland, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, USA.
Speaks Kazakh, Russian, English and Polish.
He is the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador, II Class, of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry.
Throughout his career served at the Foreign Ministry.
From 2022 up to present he has headed the Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Research under the Kazakh President.
