Ednan Karabaev

Ednan Karabajew with Condoleezza Rice (2007)

Cyrillic ( Kyrgyz )
	Эднан Осконович Карабаев
Latin :	Ednan Oskonoviç Karabaev
Transl. :	Ėdnan Oskonovič Karabaev
Transcr. :	Ednan Oskonowitsch Karabaev

Ednan Oskonowitsch Karabajew (born January 17, 1953 in Talas ) is a Kyrgyz politician and diplomat . He was foreign minister of his country from 1992 to 1993 and from 2007 to 2009 .

Karabaev graduated from the Kyrgyz State University in History in 1975. He has the degree of Candidate in History and the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Before his diplomatic career, Karabaev worked as a history teacher in Frunze , today's Bishkek. He was also active in the Soviet Komsomol organization and worked at the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR . From 1981 he worked full-time in the organs of the Komsomol and the Communist Party . From 1990 he was head of the Kyrgyz presidential administration and continued to exercise this office as State Secretary even after the Kyrgyz Republic gained independence. At the same time, he was a member of the Schogorku Kenesch, the Kyrgyz parliament. In December 1992 he was appointed Foreign Minister. He initially held this office for only one year and in 1994 became university professor and prorector for international contacts at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University. On February 8, 2007 he became Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan for the second time and held this office until January 26, 2009.