Adilbek Dzhaksybekov
Adilbek Ryskeldiuly Dzhaksybekov (Kazakh: Әділбек Рыскелдіұлы Жақсыбеков, Russian: Адильбек Рыскельдинович Джаксыбеков, Adilbek Ryskeldinovich Dzhaksybekov ) (born in 26 July 1954) is Kazakhstan's minister of defence. He was the head of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's administration. He served as the Mayor of Astana in 2002, Chairman of Governors of the Islamic Development Bank in 2003, and the Minister of Industry and Trade in 2004.
While Information Minister, Zhaksybekov participated in a meeting held in Kiev, Ukraine in 2004 in which a Common Economic Area was proposed for Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.
On 4 April 2004, he gave a speech entitled "The Industrial Innovation Development Strategy of Kazakhstan, 2003-2015" in Washington, DC.
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