Khalaf Khalafov

Khalaf Khalafov Aly oglu (Azerbaijani: Xələf Xələfov Alı oğlu) is an Azerbaijani diplomat who is serving as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Special representative of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for border and Caspian Sea issues.

Khalaf Khalafov

Life

Khalaf Khalafov was born on September 21, 1959, Armenia SSR. He studied International law at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 1977–1982. He continued his education at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in 1990–1991.[1] He is married and has two children. He speaks German and Russian.[1]

Career

Khalafov worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijani SSR as an Inspector, Head of Division in 1983–1990. He started his diplomatic career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan in 1991. He served there as Second secretary of the Consular Department in 1991–1992, Head of the Treaty and Legal Department in 1992–1997, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan in the period of 1997–2018. In 2018-2019 he served as the Chief of Office of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan.[1][2] On May 3, 2019, Khalaf Khalafov was appointed the Special Representative of the President of Azerbaijan for border and the Caspian Sea issues.[3] Since May 2019, he is the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan.[1]

Awards

References
  1. "Deputy Ministers". mfa.gov.az. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  2. "On appointment of Khalaf Khalafov as Head of the Office of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan". Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan (in Azerbaijani). 2019-08-27. Archived from the original on 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  3. "Appointment of the Special Representative of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for Border and the Caspian Sea". The Main department of Legislation of Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  4. "Ceremony of presenting the awards given by the President of the Republic of Poland". baku.msz.gov.pl. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  5. "Order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on awarding the employees of diplomatic services of the Republic of Azerbaijan". azertag.az (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  6. "Халафу Халафову вручен нагрудный знак МИД РФ "За вклад в международное сотрудничество"". vestikavkaza.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-09-23.

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