New Permanent Representative of Kyrgyzstan Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Muratbek Azymbakiev, the new Permanent Representative of Kyrgyzstan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Mr. Azymbakiev is also serving as Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to Switzerland.  Prior to his appointment to Geneva, he had been serving as Head of the Foreign Policy Department, Administration of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic from 2022 to 2025.  From 2021 to 2022, he served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, where he also served as a Senior Expert in the Department of Economic and Humanitarian Affairs from 2019 to 2021.

A career diplomat, Mr. Azymbakiev was posted at the Permanent Mission of Kyrgyzstan to the United Nations in New York from 1994 to 1997.  He also served as Deputy Permanent Representative at the Permanent Mission of Kyrgyzstan to the United Nations in Geneva from 2005 to 2008. He has held various other posts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including as Director of the Department of Information from 2017 to 2019, Director of the Third Political Department from 2016 to 2017, and Head of the Secretariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2016.

Mr. Azymbakiev has a degree from the Faculty of History of Lomonosov Moscow State University (1990).  He graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR/Russia (1993).  He is married with four children. 

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