Roza Isakovna Otunbaeva (Russian: Роза Исаковна Отунбаева; born August 23, 1950, Osh, Kyrgyz SSR, USSR) is a former foreign minister of Kyrgyzstan and the current co-chairwoman of the country's Asaba political party. She is married and has two children.
She graduated from the Philosophy Faculty of Moscow State University in 1972 and went on to teach as senior professor and head of the philosophy department at Kyrgyz State National University for ...
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Roza Isakovna Otunbaeva (Russian: Роза Исаковна Отунбаева; born August 23, 1950, Osh, Kyrgyz SSR, USSR) is a former foreign minister of Kyrgyzstan and the current co-chairwoman of the country's Asaba political party. She is married and has two children.
She graduated from the Philosophy Faculty of Moscow State University in 1972 and went on to teach as senior professor and head of the philosophy department at Kyrgyz State National University for six years.
In 1981 she began her political rise as the Communist Party's second secretary of the Lenin regional council (raikom) of Frunze (current Bishkek). In late 1980s she served as head of the USSR Delegation to UNESCO in Paris and later as the Soviet Ambassador to Malaysia. By 1992, the now independent Kyrgyzstan was led by Askar Akayev. He chose her to be both Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, positions she held until later that year when she became her country's first ambassador to the USA and Canada. She returned to her...
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