ARYSTANBEKOVA
Akmaral Haydarovna

      State and public figure of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The first female ambassador in the history of our country, the first Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United Nations, has the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in 1993. Doctor of Historical Sciences, is fluent in English and French.
      She was born May 12, 1948 in Alma-Ata. She graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of Kazakh State University named after SM Kirov (1971) and graduate (1974).
      In 1978-1983 gg. - Head of Department, Secretary of the Central Committee of Youth of Kazakhstan. From 1983 to 1989 he worked as deputy chairman, chairman of the Presidium of the Kazakh Society of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. In 1989-1991. - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan. From 1992 to 1999 - Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the UN, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Cuba in combination. In 1994-1995. He was elected vice-chairman of the 49th session of the UN General Assembly. In 1999 he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the French Republic. From 1999 to 2001. - Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to UNESCO concurrently. Since 2003 - at Large of the MFA of RK Ambassador.
      Chairman of the National Council of Women of Kazakhstan (1987-1990). Member of the Supreme Council 11 convocation of the Kazakh SSR in 1987-1990. - Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Kazakh SSR. In 2002-2003. - Vice-President of the International Diplomatic Academy (Paris).
      In December 1991, she was assigned to New York as a senior adviser to the Permanent Mission of the USSR and then the Russian Federation to the United Nations and the representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
      Akmaral Arystanbekova is not only an outstanding diplomat, the first woman to represent Kazakhstan at the international level, but also a versatile scholar, versed in matters of chemistry and catalysis, and the problems of history, diplomacy, international law, political science. She is the author of four books on international relations and world politics, dozens of scientific papers published in leading international and national publications.
      A.H. Arystanbekova awarded the Order "Kurmet" (1996) and four RC medals.