Aksoltan Ataýewa
| Aksoltan Ataýewa | |
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| Ambassador to the United Nations | |
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Assumed office January 1994 | |
| President |
Saparmurat Niyazov Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow |
| Ambassador to Cuba | |
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Assumed office 30 July 2008 | |
| President | Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow |
| Ambassador to Brazil | |
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Assumed office 31 July 2011 | |
| President | Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow |
| Ambassador to Venezuela | |
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Assumed office 4 November 2013 | |
| President | Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Aksoltan Töreýewna Ataýewa 6 November 1944 Ashgabat, Soviet Union (now Turkmenistan) |
| Alma mater | Turkmen State Medical University |
Aksoltan Toreyevna Ataeva (Turkmen: Aksoltan Töreýewna Ataýewa Russian: Аксолтан Тореевна Атаева; born 6 November 1944, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, former USSR) has been the Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the United Nations since 23 February 1995.
Biography
In 1968 she graduated from the Turkmen State Medical Institute with the degree Candidate of Medical Sciences.
She served as Deputy Minister of Public Health from 1985 to 1991 and Minister of Public Health from 1991 to 1994; from 1994 to 1995, she was both Minister of Social Security and President of the Trade Unions of Turkmenistan. She joined the ruling Democratic Party in 1992 and became a member of the People's Council in 1993.
Since January 1994, she has served as the Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the United Nations. With her active participation, December 12, 1995 was adopted by the UN General Assembly Resolution №50/80, which expressed the hope that "the status of permanent neutrality of Turkmenistan will contribute to the strengthening of peace and security in the region." In the resolution, the United Nations "recognizes and supports the status of permanent neutrality declared by Turkmenistan."
In 2008 she was appointed concurrently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan to the Republic of Cuba. In 2011, she was appointed as well Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan to the Federal Republic of Brazil, though she did not present her letter of credence to President Dilma Rousseff until 2015.[1] .[2][3] In 2013 Ambassador Atayeva was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.[4]
External links
- The Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the United Nations
- "Statement by Her Excellency Aksoltan Ataeva, Head of Delegation of Turkmenistan" at the 61st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, 26 September 2006.