Bishkek (AKIpress) – Former Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States Kubanychbek Omuraliev On November 12, he took office as President of the Turkic Investment Fund (TIF). The press service of the fund reports this.
Omuraliev was unanimously elected by the Board of Governors, the highest governing body of the fund. It includes representatives of six member states: Azerbaijan, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey and Uzbekistan.
Omuraliev replaced Baghdad Amreev as president of the Turkic Investment Fund. Amreev was the first president of the fund, his powers expired on November 11, 2026.
From 2022 to 2026, Kubanychbek Omuraliev was the Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States. He was appointed to this position at the ninth summit of the organization in Samarkand. In 2019–2022, he was the Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to Turkey, and since 2021, part-time in Israel. In 2015–2019, Omuraliev worked as ambassador to Belarus and permanent representative of Kyrgyzstan to the CIS, and since 2016 – part-time in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Previously, he was Consul General in the UAE, Minister Counselor and Deputy Head of the Kyrgyz Embassy in the USA and Canada, as well as Director of the Economic Policy Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan.
According to the fund, under the new leadership, the Turkic Investment Fund will continue to finance projects related to regional connectivity, cross-border trade, investment and sustainable development.
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