Who is Elchin Amirbekov, appointed by the President to a high position? – Dossier

Today Amirbekov Elchin Oktyabr oglu was relieved of the post of Assistant to the First Vice-President and appointed Representative of the President for Special Assignments.
Yeniavaz.com reports that E. Amirbekov was born in 1972 in Baku in an intelligent family.
In 1988, he graduated from secondary school No. 164 in Baku with a gold medal.
In 1992 he graduated with honors from the English-French Translation Department of the Azerbaijan University of Languages.
He started his first job in 1991 as a referent-translator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan.
In 1992-1993 he worked as an attaché and third secretary of the Department of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1993 he studied diplomacy at the Paris Institute of International Public Administration in France. Later, in 1994, he received special training at the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany, and at the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy.
In 1995-1997 he worked as the second secretary at the Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan to the UN in New York.
Returning to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from his first long-term assignment abroad, he served as First Secretary in the Department of International Organizations in 1998, and in 1999 as Head of the Department's Regional and International Security Department.
In 2000, he took a special course on international and national security at the School of Public Administration. John F. Kennedy of Harvard University in the USA.
In 2001-2003, he worked as a political adviser to the Azerbaijani representation in NATO in Brussels (Kingdom of Belgium).
In 2003-2004, he worked as an adviser at the Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan to the UN in New York (USA).
From 2004 to 2010, he worked as the Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva, and from 2005 to 2010 he was also the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Azerbaijan to the Swiss Confederation.
When he was based in Geneva, he served as Vice President of the UN Human Rights Council in 2008-2009 and concurrent speaker. He also led the group of Ambassadors of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states at the UN office in Geneva for one year in 2007. In addition, in 2008, Ambassador Elchin Amirbekov led the group of ambassadors of the member states of the Eastern European Regional Group at the UN office in Geneva.
In addition, he worked as the first Azerbaijani ambassador to the Holy See in 2005-2017. In 2008, while working in the Vatican, he was awarded the Order of Saint Gregory by Pope Benedict XVI.
He was also the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Azerbaijan to the Principality of Liechtenstein in 2006-2010.
From January 6, 2010 to June 23, 2017, E. Amirbekov worked as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the French Republic and, at the same time, to the Principality of Monaco.
Elchin Amirbekov has the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
From June 24, 2017 to July 18, 2023, he worked as Assistant to the First Vice President.
On July 18, 2023, by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, he was appointed representative of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for special assignments.
In the civil service, there is a qualification of a first-class state adviser.
Knows English, French and Russian.
Married and has two children.