Berik Aryn appointed vice minister of social development of Kazakhstan

By the decree of the Government, Berik Aryn was appointed to the post of vice minister of social development of Kazakhstan and dismissed from his post of vice minister for religious affairs and civil society.

Berik Aryn was born in 1969 in the Taldykorgan region. He graduated from the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University with a degree in philology, Kazakh State Law University with a degree in Law.

He began his labor activity in 1994 as a referent, attaché of the Department for Middle East and Africa of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From 1996 to 2001 he worked as attache, third secretary, second secretary, first secretary of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

From 2001 to 2002 he was head of the office in the Department of Bilateral Cooperation between Africa and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan. He headed of the Department of Asia, Middle East and Africa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan.

From 2002 to 2006, he was an adviser to the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Arab Republic of Egypt.

From 2006 to 2007 he served as chief inspector of the Foreign Policy Center of the Administration of the President of Kazakhstan.

From 2007 to 2009 he was head of the Department of Interparliamentary Relations and International Cooperation of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan.

From 2009 to 2011 he worked as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan.

From 2011 to 2016 he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Arab Republic of Egypt.

From 2012 to 2016 he was Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the League of Arab States,

From 2012 to 2016 he concurrently worked as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Kingdom of Morocco, as well as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Algerian People's Democratic Republic, the Republic of Tunisia.

Since June 2016, he held the post of vice minister for religious affairs and civil society of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

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