Kanat Saudabayev
Qanat Bekmyrsauly Saudabayev ( Kazakh Қанат Бекмырзаұлы Саудабаев, Russian Канат Бекмурзаевич Саудабаев / Kanat Saudabayev Bekmursajewitsch; born 1946 in Almaty region ) was from September 2009 to April 2011 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Life
Qanat Saudabayev was born in 1946 in Almaty area. He graduated at the Institute of Culture in St. Petersburg and at the Academy of Social Sciences in Moscow.
In 1991, he was Deputy Chief of Kazakh SSR in the Soviet Union. In autumn 1991 he was appointed by Mikhail Gorbachev to the Soviet ambassador to Turkey. A few weeks after the collapse of the Soviet Union was Qanat Saudabayev between 1994 and 1996 Ambassador of Kazakhstan in Turkey. In 1994 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan in the meantime ever before was from 1996 to 1999 Ambassador to the United Kingdom and thus also of Norway, Sweden and Ireland. From 1999 until 2000 he was Head of the Chancellery of the Kazakh prime minister.
Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States, he from 2000 to 2007. On 4 September 2009 he released Marat Täschin as Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan from. This post he held until April 11, 2011.
Qanat Saudabayev is married and has three children. He is fluent in Kazakh, Russian and German, English and Turkish.