Yashar Aliyev
| Yashar Aliyev | |
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| Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the United States | |
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In office 9 October 2006 – 26 October 2011 |
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| President |
Heydar Aliyev Ilham Aliyev |
| Preceded by | Hafiz Pashayev |
| Succeeded by | Elin Suleymanov |
| Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations | |
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In office January 2002 – 9 October 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Eldar Kouliyev |
| Succeeded by | Agshin Mehdiyev |
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Assumed office 10 June 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Agshin Mehdiyev |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
19 August 1955 Baku, Azerbaijan |
Yashar Teymur oglu Aliyev (Azerbaijani: Yaşar Teymur oğlu Əliyev) (born 19 August 1955) is an Azerbaijani diplomat who has been the Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations since 2014. Previously he was Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2002 to 2006 and Ambassador to the United States from 2006 to 2011. He was also Azerbaijan's first ambassador to Cuba (2006).
Yashar Aliyev is fluent in Azeri, English, Arabic, Russian and Turkish. He is married and has two children.
Aliyev attended Azerbaijan State University from 1972 to 1977, where he achieved the school's highest degree in Oriental Studies. He then attended the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia, for post-graduate work at the Oriental Studies Institute, from 1980 to 1982. He also studied for one year in the early 1990s at the Diplomatic Academy of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
After graduation from the University Aliyev worked for academic institutions in Azerbaijan, and served in the Soviet Union's military and trade missions in Iraq (1977–1979) and Kuwait (1985-1988.) Aliyev joined Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1989 as Political Officer in the Department of Information and Political Analysis, later serving as First Secretary in 1990 and Deputy Head in 1991. In 1992, he headed the Ministry's Department of International Organizations, before beginning his diplomatic career at the United Nations in New York City in the same year, serving as Counselor on Political Affairs at the Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan until June 2001.
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