Nurlan Yermekbayev

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Nurlan Yermekbayev
Нұрлан Ермекбаев
Нурлан Ермекбаев
Minister of Defense
Assumed office
7 August 2018
President Nursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded by Saken Zhasuzakov
Personal details
Born (1963-01-01) 1 January 1963
Shymkent, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Military service
Allegiance  Soviet Union
Service/branch Soviet Armed Forces
Years of service 1986–1991
Battles/wars

Nurlan Baiuzakuly Yermekbayev[1] (Kazakh: Нұрлан Байұзақұлы Ермекбаев, Russian: Нурлан Байузакович Ермекбаев) is a Kazakh politician and diplomat who has been the current Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan since August 2018.[2]

Biography

From 1984 to 1985, he served as a military interpreter for Soviet advisers in Angola. He graduated with honors from the Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR in the late 80s, specializing in knowledge of Chinese and English. After he graduated, he served until 1991 in the Armed Forces of the USSR in the Osh Region of the Kyrgyz SSR and in the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk of the Kazakh SSR. Following the fall of the USSR, Yermekbayev worked in foreign economic organizations and in trade missions at embassies of Kazakhstan.

In 2001, he served as an aide to Kuanysh Sultanov and Zhanybek Karibzhanov, who were the Ambassadors of Kazakhstan to China. Since he left that post in 2003, he served in various administrative posts at foreign policy institutions in Kazakhstan and abroad. Between 2007 and 2012, Yermekbayev worked in his position as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan and Assistant to the President of Kazakhstan. From April–October 2012, he was appointed to a series of ambassadorial posts in China, Vietnam, and North Korea. He was recalled in November 2014 to be appointed Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

On September 13, 2016, he was made Minister for Religious Affairs and Civil Society of Kazakhstan, with the ministry being established the same day. On April 4, 2018, by the Decree of the Nursultan Nazarbayev, he was dismissed from the post of Minister for Religious Affairs and Civil Society of Kazakhstan and was appointed Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He was appointed as defense minister on August 7, 2018 by President Nazarbayev, succeeding Colonel General Saken Zhasuzakov.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Private Life

Yermekbayev is a polyglot, being fluent in English, Russian, Chinese, and Portuguese, apart from his native Kazakh.

Education

1986 — Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR.

1996 — Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Construction.

Awards

  • Order of Parasat (2015)
  • Order of Kurmet (2005)
  • Medal "For Contribution to Foreign Intelligence"
  • Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • Medal "20 Years of the Constitution of Kazakhstan"
  • Medal "20 Years of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
  • Medal "20 years of Military Intelligence"
  • Medal "10 years of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
  • Medal "20 years of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan"

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.government.kz/en/pravitelstvo/1003796-zhasuzakov-saken-adilkhanovich.html
  2. ↑ "Ex-Secretary of Security Council appointed Kazakh Minister of Defence". The Astana Times. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  3. ↑ "Сакен Жасузаков получил новую должность". zakon.kz. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  4. ↑ "Kazakh President Appoints New Defense Minister". rferl.org. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  5. ↑ "Ермекбаев Нурлан Байузакович (персональная справка) - Параграф-WWW мобильная версия". online.zakon.kz. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  6. ↑ "Указами Главы государства: — Официальный сайт Президента Республики Казахстан". akorda.kz. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  7. ↑ NUR.KZ. "Нурлан Ермекбаев назначен министром обороны". NUR.KZ. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  8. ↑ "Нурлан Ермекбаев назначен министром обороны Казахстана - новости Казахстана". Tengrinews. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
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