“Aibek Smadiyarov has been appointed as Chairman of the International Information Committee – Official Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan,” reads the statement.
Smadiyarov was the Director of the Communications Department – Official Representative from June 2023, before that, from 2019 to 2023, he was Deputy Chairman of the International Information Committee – Press Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, andin 2018-2019, he headed the press service of the country's Foreign Ministry.
Smadiyarov has the diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the II class.
He speaks Kazakh, Russian, English and Turkish.
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