Adil Kapanuly Tursunov ; born 5 May 1973,

Almaty Almaty, formerly Alma-Ata, is the List of most populous cities in Kazakhstan, largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population exceeding two million residents within its metropolitan area. Located in the foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains ...

) is a Kazakh diplomat, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since January 2023, he has been the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to

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Early life and education

Tursunov was born in Almaty in 1973. In 1994 he graduated from the Kazakh State Academy of Management, and in 2001 — the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Career

From 1994 to 2008, he worked in the structure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a secretary of the Embassy in

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and

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, a student of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as an adviser-envoy in

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. From 2008 to 2009, he was Deputy Head of the Center for Foreign Policy of the Presidential Administration. From 2009 to 2016, he worked as Director of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Adviser-Envoy to Georgia, and later Director of the CIS Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From May 2016 to March 2019, he held the position of Head of the Foreign Policy Center of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan. On March 28, 2019, to June 2021, he was advisor to

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, the First President of the

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. From June 2021 to April 2022, he worked as an assistant to the First President - Head of the Information and Analytical Support Department of the Office. From April 8, 2022 to January 11, 2023, he was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. On January 11, 2023, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the

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Personal life

Adil Tursunov's first wife was Aigul Nurieva, divorced. There are two children.

Awards

He was awarded the orders Kurmet and

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References

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