New Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan Presents Credentials

(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service)

The new Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations, Kairat Umarov, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

Prior to his appointment, he had been First Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2022.

Throughout his 25-year diplomatic career, he held various positions in his country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  From 2020 to 2022, he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Austria and Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna. Additionally, he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Slovenia in 2022.

From 2017 to 2020, he was his country’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and served as its Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States between 2013 and 2017.

From 2009 to 2013, he was Kazakhstan’s Deputy Foreign Minister overseeing international organizations, including the United Nations, as well as bilateral relations with the United States and other Western Hemisphere countries.

He was posted in India from 2004 to 2009 and concurrently in Sri Lanka between 2008 and 2009 as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Mr. Umarov was Deputy Chief of Mission at his country’s Embassy in Washington, D.C., from 1998 to 2003, after serving as First Secretary and Counsellor from 1994 to 1996.  He has also worked at the Centre for Foreign Policy in Kazakhstan’s Presidential Administration.

Born in 1963, he graduated from Almaty Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages in 1985 with honours.

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* This supersedes Press Release BIO/4918 of 9 January 2019.