The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MFA RK, , ҚР СІМ; , МИД РК) is the Kazakh government ministry which oversees the foreign relations of Kazakhstan.
History The history of Kazakh diplomacy dates back to the period of the Kazakh Khanate where the Khans initiated the development of diplomatic relations and implemented the foreign policy. The Khanate's main purpose in terms of diplomacy was to negotiate the expansion of territories, with the desire to create trade routes, the travel roads, and trade centres for international exchange.Kazakh Khanate's International Relations and Diplomatic Practice in XVI-XVIII centuries, Diplomatic Herald 2 (51) 2015, 6-7 pages The headquarters of the Kazakh khans had offices, which issued documents of a diplomatic and socio-economic nature. Kazakh khans appointed their envoys (known as ilchi), who were instructed to transmit messages and orders to neighboring rulers and governors.Leaders under ShanyrakDiplomacy in the period of Kazakh Khanate
The first modern Kazakh foreign ministry was formed in the early 1920s as the diplomatic office for the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.Formation and development of the foreign policy apparatus of the Republic of Kazakhstan This person who headed the Ministry was known as the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Turkestan ASSR, whose activities were regulated by the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the Turkestan ASSR.International legal relations of the Turkestan ASSR
The position of a Minister of Foreign Affairs appeared in February 1944 after the adoption of the Soviet Law "On Submission of Powers to the Union Republics in the Field of Foreign Relations and on the Transformation of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs from the All-Union into Union-Republic People’s Commissariat".The USSR Law «On Submission of Powers to the Union Republics in the Field of Foreign Relations and on the Transformation of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs from the All-Union into Union-Republic People’s Commissariat» This gave the Union republics the right to enter in direct relations with foreign states, however, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR performed all the main foreign policy functions.
Kazakhstan's foreign ministry in its current form was founded in 1991 after the Kazakh SSR became the Republic of Kazakhstan and gained its independence from the Soviet Union.
List of ministers
Name Begin End Toleutay Suleymenov December 1991 1994 Kanat Saudabayev 1994 1994 Kassym-Jomart Tokayev 1994 1999 Erlan Idrisov 1999 2002 Kassym-Jomart Tokayev June 2003 January 2007 Marat Tazhin January 11, 2007 September 4, 2009 Kanat Saudabayev September 4, 2009 April 11, 2011 Yerzhan Kazykhanov April 11, 2011 September 24, 2012 Erlan Idrisov September 28, 2012 December 28, 2016 Kairat Abdrakhmanov December 28, 2016 December 26, 2018 Beibut Atamkulov December 26, 2018 September 18, 2019 Mukhtar Tleuberdi September 18, 2019 March 29, 2023 Murat NurtleuApril 3, 202326 September, 2025Ermek Köşerbaev26 September, 2025Present
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs