Chingiz Aidarbekov

Chingiz Azamatovich Aidarbekov (Kyrgyz: Чыңгыз Азаматович Айдарбеков, romanized: Chynggyz Azamatovich Aydarbekov; born 27 October 1977) is a Kyrgyz diplomat who was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan from October 2018 to October 2020.^[1]

Aidarbekov was born on 27 October 1977, in the city of Frunze (now Bishkek), the capital of the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic. He began his professional career as an attaché of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan. He also served until 2005 as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd secretary of the CIS Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His diplomatic career was launched when he was transferred from Bishkek to the Kyrgyz embassy in Tashkent, working as Chargé d'Affaires for three years. He returned to Bishkek in 2008 to briefly serve as head of the Department of Multilateral Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Later that year, he would leave the country again to become the Counselor at the Embassy of Kyrgyzstan in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. In January 2011, Aidarbekov was invited to head the protocol department of the President of Kyrgyzstan and four months later, was made the deputy head of external relations and protocol. President Almazbek Atambayev appointed Aidarbekov as Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to Japan in April 2016. On 17 October 2018, he was promoted to the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs by President Sooronbay Jeenbekov, replacing Erlan Abdyldayev.^[2]

In his family, he has one sister, as well as his father Azamat and his mother Zifargul. He is also the grandson of Kyrgyz revolutionary and Soviet politician Imanali Aidarbekov.^[3][4] Besides Kyrgyz and Russian, he is also fluent in English.

• (1998) - graduated from the International University of Kyrgyzstan with a degree in international relations.
• (2001) - graduated from the International University of Kyrgyzstan with a degree in international law
• (2017) - completed his post-graduate studies at the Kyrgyz Russian Slavic University named after Boris Yeltsin

• Kyrgyzstan - Minister for Foreign Affairs Addresses General Debate, 74th Session - YouTube
• Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Minister Aidarbekov at the Green Central Asia Conference - YouTube
• Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic Chingiz Aidarbekov: "Kyrgyzstan needs technical and other support to achieve the UN SDGs, which is also reflected in the Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the Kyrgyz Republic" - Website
• International conference "Sustainable Development Goals and the Constitution: the experience of the SCO countries" - Website of the National Center of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Human Rights
• An expanded meeting of the working group on monitoring the implementation of legislation on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Kyrgyz Republic of the Committee on International Affairs, Defense, Security and Migration chaired by Member of Parliament Chingiz Aidarbekovwas held in the Jogorku Kenesh - Website of Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic, Twitter of Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic
• Member of Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic Chingiz Aidarbekov took part in the International conference "Sustainable Development Goals and the Constitution: the experience of the SCO countries" - AkiPress