Kadyrbek Sarbayev

Kadyrbek Sarbajew ( Kyrgyz and Russian Кадырбек Тельманович Сарбаев / Kadyrbek Telmanowitsch Sarbajew; born December 9, 1966 in Frunze , today Bishkek , Kyrgyz SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Kyrgyz diplomat and politician. He was Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Minister from January 2009 until the uprising in April 2010 .

Kadyrbek Sarbajew studied at the Far Eastern State University in Vladivostok . From 1992 he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan. From 1993 to 1996 he worked at the embassy of his country in Beijing . In 1996 he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he headed the consular department from 1997. From 1999 to 2001 he was Counselor of the Kyrgyz Embassy in Berlin , and from 2001 to 2003 of the Embassy in Beijing. From 2003 to 2004 he was head of the Department for Relations with the States of Eastern Asia in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from 2004 to 2007 national coordinator of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization . From 2005 Sarbayev was also his country's deputy foreign minister. Before his appointment as Foreign Minister in January 2009, he last worked as the Kyrgyz Ambassador to Beijing from 2007. With the overthrow of the Bakiyev regime by the opposition in April 2010, Sarbajev's term as foreign minister ended.

Web links

• Biography on the pages of the Kyrgyz news agency 24.kg (Russian)