Chingiz Aidarbekov

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 [ky].^[3][4] Besides Kyrgyz and Russian, he is also fluent in English.