Kazakh Diplomat Appointed as Secretary General of Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States
ASTANA, September 3, 2018, - During the 6th meeting of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States (CCTS) in Cholpon-Ata, Bagdad Amreyev, a well-known Kazakh diplomat, was appointed as the Secretary General of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States by the decision of the heads of the CCTS states.
Mr. Amreyev is a career diplomat, who has held various positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, worked as the Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and UAE concurrently), Egypt (Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Jordan and Libya concurrently), and Turkey (Albania concurrently). Most recently he served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Iran. He speaks Kazakh, Russian, Arabic, English, Turkish and Persian.
The diplomat is the author of the following books: Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia; Monarchies of the Persian Gulf; East and West: Globalization Challenges;DonemimizdeKazakistanTürkiyeIlişkileriveTürkDünyasi (Modern Relations of Kazakhstan and Turkey and the Turkic world) and DoguveBati (East and West).
The Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States was established on the initiative of President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on October 3, 2009, in Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan) at the 9th Summit of the Heads of Turkic Speaking States. At present, the Council includes Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey. To coordinate the interaction, the Secretariat of the Turkic Council operates on an ongoing basis with headquarters in Istanbul,Turkey.