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Andrey Kabyakow appointed ambassador to Russia

 

Alyaksandr Lukashenka on November 8 appointed former Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Kabyakow to serve as ambassador to the Russian Federation and Belarus' permanent representagtive to the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC).

Born in Moscow on November 21, 1960, Mr. Kabyakow graduated from the Ordzhonikidze Moscow Aviation Institute in 1983, the Belarusian State Institute of the National Economy in 1991 and the Belarusian Communist Party’s Institute of Political Science and Social Management in the same year.

He served as deputy head of the Control Service of the President of Belarus in 1995-96, deputy head of the State Control Committee between 1996 and 1998, head of the State Control Committee between 1998 and 2000, first deputy prime minister between 2000 and September 2001; deputy prime minister between September 2001 and July 2002, deputy prime minister/economy minister between July 2002 and December 2003, deputy prime minister between December 2003 and 2010, and deputy head of the Presidential Administration between December 2010 and November 2011. Mr. Kabyakow will replace Vasil Dalhalyow who has served in the position of ambassador to Russia since August 2006.

 

The Belarusian leader also appointed:

--Uladzimir Lapata-Zahorski as ambassador to Indonesia;

--Andrey Malchan as ambassador to the Republic of South Africa;

--Syarhey Rakhmanaw as ambassador to Japan

--Alyaksandr Syameshka as ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain. //BelaPAN