Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

Qassym Scho - Mart Kemeluly Toqajew ( Kazakh Қасым - Жомарт Кемелұлы Тоқаев, Russian Касым - Жомарт Кемелевич Токаев / Kassym Scho - Mart Kemelewitsch Tokayev; born May 17, 1953 in Alma- Ata, Kazakh SSR ) is current Director-General of the United Nations Office in Geneva. He was previously Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 1999 to 2002 and from 1994 to 1999 and from 2002 to 2007 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan.

Biography

Toqajew studied at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Linguistics Institute at Beijing and at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry. He earned a doctorate in political science. After completing his studies, he worked at the Soviet Embassy in Singapore and in the Soviet Foreign Ministry.

From 1985 to 1991 Toqajew was second and then first secretary of the Soviet Embassy in the People's Republic of China. After 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Kazakhstan gained independence it was used in the post of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In October 1994, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, and also held in March 1999, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.

On 12 October 1999 Toqajew was under President Nursultan Nazarbayev as prime minister of Kazakhstan. After about two years in this office, he was transferred again to the Foreign Ministry as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and then Toqajew was again Kazakh Foreign Minister.

After his second term as Foreign Minister from 2007 to 2011 he was President of the Senate of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

On March 12, 2011, Qassym Scho - Mart Toqajew Ban Ki -moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, appointed Director General of the United Nations in Geneva. He is also the Secretary General of the Conference on Disarmament.