Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

He was born on May 17, 1953, in Alma-Ata in the Soviet Union (now Almaty, Kazakhstan).⁠[1][2]

The KOSMOS Welt-Almanach entry published by Germany’s Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) gives his date of birth as May 15, 1953.⁠[3]

His father, Kemel Tokayev (1923–1986), was a Second World War veteran and a writer who founded the detective-adventure genre in Kazakh literature; his mother, Turar Shabarbayeva (1931–2000), worked at the Alma-Ata Teacher Training Institute of Foreign Languages.⁠[1][4]

From 1970 to 1975 he studied at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), graduating in 1975; his pre-degree internship was at the Soviet embassy in the People’s Republic of China.⁠[3][1]

In 1975 he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR and was posted to the Soviet embassy in the Republic of Singapore; in 1979 he returned to the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.⁠[1][5]

In 1983–1984 he interned at the Beijing Linguistic Institute.⁠[1][4]

From 1984 to 1985 he worked at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was then posted to the Soviet embassy in China, where he served until 1991 as second secretary, first secretary and counsellor. Encyclopædia BritannicaEncyclopædia BritannicaEncyclopædia Britannica is a general English-language encyclopedia first published in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1768; the name also refers to its publisher, Chicago-based Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. (which presents itself as The Britannica Group). The print edition ended in 2012, and the company’s main businesses since then have been the online encyclopedia Britannica.com, digital education products for schools and libraries, and Merriam-Webster dictionaries.Open the full entry dates his posting to the Soviet embassy in Beijing from 1985 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.⁠[1][2]

In 1992 he graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and was appointed Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan; in 1993 he became First Deputy Foreign Minister.⁠[1]

In 1994 he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan. Encyclopædia Britannica writes that President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed him and that the disarmament of Kazakhstan’s nuclear arsenal was completed during his tenure.⁠[1][2]

In March 1999 he became Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.⁠[1]

In October 1999, with the consent of Parliament, the President of Kazakhstan appointed him Prime Minister by decree.⁠[1]

Encyclopædia Britannica writes that he was appointed after the incumbent prime minister resigned in 1999 and that political instability prompted his resignation in early 2002.⁠[2]

In January 2002 he became State Secretary and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and he headed the Foreign Ministry from 2003 to 2007. The biography on the Kazakh presidential website states that in this post he took an active part in the global process of nuclear non-proliferation.⁠[1]

In January 2007 he was elected Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 2008 he was elected a Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.⁠[1][2]

On March 11, 2011, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced five senior appointments, including Tokayev as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva; he was the first Asian to hold the post.⁠[6]

The United Nations Office at Geneva’s list of former Directors-General gives his term as 2011–2013 at the rank of Under-Secretary-General, together with the role of Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Conference on Disarmament; the biography on the Kazakh presidential website renders the post as “UN Deputy Secretary-General.”⁠[5][1]

Encyclopædia Britannica writes that Ban Ki-moon cited his work on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament when appointing him, and that he left two years later to return to Kazakhstan as head of the Senate.⁠[2]

In 2011 the Conference on Disarmament held a plenary meeting in Geneva to welcome him as its Secretary-General and as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva; Ban Ki-moon informed the Conference that he had appointed him Secretary-General of the Conference and his Personal Representative. Tokayev said at the meeting that the Conference had ended its last session without starting substantive work, that the body’s future would be very complicated if the year ended without a programme of work, and that dealing with the issues outside the Conference would seriously affect it and make it irrelevant; he added that he was more optimistic than pessimistic.⁠[7]

On October 16, 2013, he was re-elected Chairman of the Senate. The KOSMOS Welt-Almanach entry lists his two terms as Senate chairman as 2007–2011 and 2013–2019.⁠[1][3]

Less than 24 hours after Nursultan Nazarbayev suddenly announced his resignation, Tokayev was sworn in as President of Kazakhstan on March 20, 2019, at a joint session of parliament in the capital. Encyclopædia Britannica writes that, as first in line of succession, he became president when Nazarbayev resigned.⁠[8][1][2][9]

On the day of his inauguration he proposed renaming the capital, Astana, as Nursultan in honour of Nazarbayev, and parliament approved the change within hours. Nazarbayev kept the constitutional title “Leader of the Nation,” a lifetime post as head of the Security Council and the leadership of the ruling Nur Otan party; senators then chose Nazarbayev’s eldest daughter, Dariga Nazarbayeva, as Senate speaker.⁠[8]

On June 9, 2019, he won the early presidential election with 70.96 percent of the vote; on June 12, in accordance with Article 42 of the Constitution of Kazakhstan, he took the oath of office and formally assumed the post of head of state.⁠[1]

In 2020 Vyacheslav Nikonov, a United Russia lawmaker, claimed that Kazakhstan “simply didn’t exist” and that its territory was a “gift” from Russia and the Soviet Union. In an article published in January 2021, Tokayev wrote: “Nobody from outside gave Kazakhs this territory as a gift.”⁠[10]

In April 2021 he became chairman of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan, and in November 2021 he took over the leadership of the ruling Nur Otan party.⁠[2]

On January 2, 2022, residents of Zhanaozen, an oil town in western Kazakhstan, began protesting a sharp rise in gas prices; by January 4 thousands of peaceful protesters in other regions had joined, demanding socio-economic and political reforms. Encyclopædia Britannica writes that the price of liquefied petroleum gas doubled after the government ended price caps, prompting nationwide demonstrations.⁠[11][2]

On January 5 Tokayev accepted the government’s resignation, reinstated the gas price cap and imposed a nationwide state of emergency banning mass gatherings; Human Rights Watch wrote that he also repeatedly blocked the internet, creating an information vacuum in many parts of the country. That evening people in civilian clothes attacked police in Almaty and seized several state and public buildings, including city hall and the airport, and fires were set and looting took place in various parts of the city. He also imposed a 180-day cap on vehicle fuel prices and a moratorium on utility rate increases.⁠[11][12]

Encyclopædia Britannica writes that he took over leadership of the Security Council from Nazarbayev; the biography on the presidential website states that he has been Chairman of the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan since January 2022.⁠[2][1]

On January 6 Tokayev called the protests and riots “an act of aggression” and asked the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) for help against “terrorist gangs” trained abroad; Human Rights Watch noted that he gave no details or evidence for these claims. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who chaired the alliance at the time, announced a “peacekeeping” force the same day; Human Rights Watch wrote that it included at least 3,000 Russian paratroopers and troops from Belarus, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia.⁠[11]

CSTO troops began arriving on January 6; Kazakh officials said they would guard government institutions rather than fight demonstrators, and Russia’s Defense Ministry said more than 70 cargo planes were being used. On January 7 the Russian Defense Ministry said Colonel-General Andrey Serdyukov would command the force.⁠[12][11]

On January 6 security forces carried out a police operation in Almaty; official sources said dozens of protesters and at least 18 police officers had been killed and more than 1,000 people injured. Video reviewed by Human Rights Watch showed security forces firing live ammunition.⁠[11]

On January 7 Tokayev said in a televised address: “I have given the order to law enforcement and the army to shoot to kill without warning,” adding: “Those who don’t surrender will be eliminated.” He called the participants “terrorists,” “bandits” and “militants” and blamed “foreign actors” and “independent media” for inciting the turmoil; the Associated PressAssociated PressThe Associated Press is a cooperative news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it is the oldest and largest news agency in the United States.Open the full entry noted that he offered no evidence.⁠[12][11]

Figures released by Kazakhstan’s Interior Ministry were 26 protesters killed and 26 wounded, 18 law enforcement officers killed and more than 700 injured, and more than 3,800 people detained; the figures could not be independently verified. On January 7 the ministry put the number detained at 3,811. The Prosecutor General’s Office opened pretrial investigations on terrorism and mass-rioting charges, which carry sentences of eight years to life.⁠[12][11]

Human Rights Watch issued a statement the same day calling for any order to shoot to kill without warning to be cancelled immediately, saying it violated Kazakhstan’s international obligations to respect and protect the right to life, and calling for independent investigations of unlawful killings, the release of people arbitrarily detained and the restoration of internet access.⁠[11]

On January 10 he said at an emergency online session of the CSTO Collective Security Council: “We are talking about an attempted coup d’etat.” He said the action had been coordinated by a “single center” with the aim of undermining the constitutional order and seizing power, that the main blow had been directed against Almaty, and that the terrorists had planned to attack the capital.⁠[13][14]

He said the CSTO mission of 2,030 troops and 250 pieces of military hardware would soon end, and denied that the authorities had used force against peaceful demonstrators; the state of emergency would last through January 19. Al JazeeraAl JazeeraAl Jazeera is a news media network headquartered in Doha, Qatar, founded by Sheikh Hamad ibn Khalifa Al Thani, emir of Qatar.Open the full entry noted that he offered no proof of outside involvement and put the death toll at that point at more than 160. Vladimir Putin said at the same session that the CSTO had stopped “terrorists, criminals, looters and other criminal elements” from undermining the foundations of power and that it would not allow “colour revolutions.”⁠[13][14]

On January 11 he appointed former deputy prime minister Alikhan Smailov as prime minister and announced that CSTO troops would begin a phased withdrawal within two days, to be completed in no more than 10 days. After his removal as head of the Security Council, Nazarbayev had not appeared in public; his spokesman denied that he had left the country.⁠[15]

In March 2022 he pledged political reforms, including reducing presidential power and strengthening parliament, and called for less government involvement in the economy and a narrower gap between rich and poor. That month he attributed the January events to unnamed “traitors.”⁠[16][17]

The ruling Nur Otan party was renamed Amanat in March 2022, and in April 2022 he handed the party leadership to the speaker of the Mazhilis, the lower house of parliament.⁠[2]

On May 25, 2022, he met Changpeng ZhaoChangpeng ZhaoChangpeng Zhao (commonly abbreviated CZ) is a Canadian entrepreneur and the founder and former chief executive officer of Binance. He entered the Bitcoin industry with a background in trading-systems engineering and founded Binance in 2017; in 2023 he pleaded guilty in the United States to failing to maintain an effective anti-money-laundering program and resigned, personally bearing a $50 million criminal fine and a $150 million CFTC civil penalty, while Binance as a company separately bore billions of dollars in criminal and regulatory settlements; he served four months in prison in 2024 and received a U.S. presidential pardon in 2025. Since then he has mainly been involved in education, investment, and advisory work on digital asset policy.Open the full entry, founder and CEO of Binance. They discussed long-term cooperation between the relevant Kazakh agencies and Binance in digital finance, joint educational programmes on blockchain technology, and the creation of a regional crypto-industry hub in Kazakhstan. After the meeting, in Tokayev’s presence, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry and Binance signed a memorandum on cooperation in Kazakhstan.⁠[18]

On June 5, 2022, Kazakhstan held a referendum on the constitutional reforms he had proposed. Preliminary results from the Central Referendum Commission gave a turnout of 68.06 percent (7,986,293 of 11,734,642 eligible voters), with 77.18 percent (6,163,863 citizens) in favour, 18.66 percent against and 4.16 percent of ballots invalid. The Associated Press gave the preliminary result at the time as about 77 percent in favour, just under 19 percent against and about 2.6 percent invalid.⁠[19][16]

The amendments changed 33 articles, about one third of the 1995 Constitution: they re-established the Constitutional Court, gave the Commissioner for Human Rights a constitutional mandate, wrote a ban on the death penalty into the Constitution and moved the country from a super-presidential system towards a presidential republic with an influential parliament and an accountable government. He said the main goal of the reform was “the democratisation of the country and expanding the opportunities for people to participate in governance.”⁠[19]

Encyclopædia Britannica writes that the amendments made the executive more accountable, targeted nepotism and stripped Nazarbayev of the “Leader of the Nation” title and its privileges, and that observers saw the landslide approval as support for Tokayev. The Associated Press wrote that the changes were widely seen as an attempt to repudiate Nazarbayev’s legacy, and that demonstrators in January had chanted “old man out.”⁠[2][16]

On June 17, 2022, he shared the stage with Vladimir Putin and Margarita Simonyan, head of RT, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. He argued that if the right to self-determination were applied worldwide there would be more than 600 nations instead of the 193 states in the United Nations, which was why Kazakhstan did not recognise Taiwan, Kosovo, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and said: “Apparently, the same principle will be applied to the quasi-state territories that are, in our view, Luhansk and Donetsk.”⁠[10]

The Russian lawmaker Konstantin Zatulin responded that Tokayev had “challenged” Putin, and noted that northern Kazakhstan had “many towns with a predominantly Russian population.”⁠[10]

In September 2022 he called for early presidential and parliamentary elections. In a State of the Nation address he proposed a single seven-year presidential term, saying: “Seven years is a sufficient period to implement any ambitious program.”⁠[2][20]

On September 17 he signed a law extending the presidential term from five to seven years and barring any president from running for a second term; parliament had unanimously approved the amendments in two readings the previous day. The same law restored the capital’s name from Nur-Sultan to Astana, with immediate effect under a decree on the presidential website. He had called for “completely new standards for a political system with fair and open rules of the game.” Al Jazeera wrote that it was not immediately clear whether the amendments would allow him to run again, and that similar constitutional changes in Russia and Belarus had allowed incumbents to run again; The Diplomat wrote that under the new rules he would stay in power through 2029, ten years in total.⁠[21][20]

On November 20, 2022, he won the early presidential election with 81.31 percent of the vote; his inauguration ceremony was held on November 26.⁠[1][9]

The “against all” option came second with 5.8 percent. The election observation mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, headed by Urszula Gacek, found in its preliminary conclusions that the election was “efficiently prepared” but “lacking competitiveness,” and that eligibility requirements for presidential candidates were “overly restrictive.” The mission had a core team of 11 experts from 10 OSCE participating States based in Astana and 30 long-term observers, and ODIHR requested 300 short-term observers.⁠[20][22]

In January 2023 he called snap parliamentary elections for March; Encyclopædia Britannica writes that Amanat lost support but still won a majority.⁠[2]

Around the first anniversary of the January events, Prosecutor General Berik Asylov said in remarks to the Mazhilis that the events had been an “attempted coup” secretly prepared throughout 2021; in an interview with Vlast he said that former National Security Committee chief Karim Masimov could be considered the leader of the alleged conspiracy. Masimov had been removed as head of the National Security Committee on January 6, 2022, and later arrested on treason charges. Official figures put the toll at 238 dead, more than 4,500 injured and around 10,000 detained.⁠[17]

In an October 2022 opinion, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for Masimov’s release on the grounds of the “overwhelming secrecy” of the case.⁠[17]

On April 24, 2023, a court in Astana sentenced Karim Masimov to 18 years in prison for high treason, attempting to seize power by force and abuse of office; his former deputies Anuar Sadyqulov and Daulet Erghozhin received 16 and 15 years and Marat Osipov three years, in a trial closed to the public because it involved classified materials. Samat Abish, Masimov’s first deputy and a nephew of Nazarbayev, was fired but not charged. The court also stripped all the defendants of their generals’ ranks and state awards.⁠[23]

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty wrote that the January events left at least 238 people dead, including 19 law enforcement officers, and that the authorities had provided no evidence for Tokayev’s claim that “20,000 extremists who were trained in terrorist camps abroad” had attacked Almaty.⁠[23]

In a message to the public in September 2023 he announced a referendum initiative on building a nuclear power plant, arguing that Kazakhstan, as the world’s largest uranium producer, should also have its own nuclear generation capacity; he indicated a preference for an “international consortium made up of global companies equipped with cutting-edge technologies.”⁠[24]

The referendum of October 6, 2024, asked: “Do you agree with the construction of a nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan?” Final results announced by Central Election Commission chairman Nurlan Abdirov gave a turnout of 63.66 percent (7,820,204 people), with 5,561,937 votes (71.12 percent) in favour and 2,045,271 against.⁠[25][24]

In May 2025 he announced a pilot zone in which cryptocurrency could be used to pay for goods and services, to be located in Alatau, a city of about 52,000 people in southeastern Kazakhstan.⁠[26]

In his annual State of the Nation address on September 8, 2025, titled “Kazakhstan in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Key Tasks and Their Solutions through Digital Transformation,” he proposed a new Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development headed by a specialist at deputy prime minister level, with the goal of a “fully digital nation within three years,” and said: “Artificial intelligence is no longer an abstract concept.”⁠[27]

He said: “It is advisable to create a State Fund of Digital Assets on the basis of the National Bank’s Investment Corporation,” to accumulate a strategic crypto reserve of promising assets; he asked the Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market to draft a law creating a digital asset ecosystem for adoption before 2026, and said Alatau would become “the first fully digitalized city in the region.”⁠[26]

He also proposed a transition to a unicameral parliament, to be decided by a nationwide referendum in 2027, saying: “I am convinced that it is necessary to conduct an open dialogue with the people on such fateful issues.”⁠[27]

On October 2, 2025, on the sidelines of the Digital Bridge 2025 forum, he met BinanceBinanceBinance is a global digital asset trading and multi-asset financial platform launched in 2017 and co-founded by Changpeng Zhao and Yi He. Its business has expanded from spot trading to derivatives, wallets, payments, a public blockchain ecosystem, market data, traditional securities, and artificial intelligence interfaces; its history also includes security incidents, regulatory enforcement across multiple jurisdictions, a 2023 U.S. criminal settlement, and subsequent compliance restructuring.Open the full entry founder Changpeng Zhao and praised Zhao’s personal contribution to the development of the global crypto industry and the fintech ecosystem. The readout from the presidential press service recalled that after Zhao’s 2022 visit a memorandum had been signed on creating a regional crypto-industry hub in Kazakhstan based on Binance Lab, and that a growing number of blockchain and crypto projects had been launched in the country since then.⁠[28]

In November 2025 he travelled to Washington for the C5+1 summit of the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States is a federal country in North America made up of 50 states, the District of Columbia as the seat of government, and territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam; its capital is Washington, D.C. The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The 2020 census (April 1, 2020) counted a resident population of 331,449,281, and the 435 seats of the House of Representatives are apportioned among the states on the basis of the census.Open the full entry and the five Central Asian states. During the summit Donald TrumpDonald TrumpDonald Trump (born 1946) is an American politician and businessman, a Republican who ran the real estate company the Trump Organization and starred in the television series The Apprentice. He served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 and has been the 47th president since 2025.Open the full entry invited him to join an Oval Office phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to confirm Kazakhstan’s intent to join the Abraham Accords; Trump then announced at the White House: “I’m delighted to report that Kazakhstan has officially agreed.”⁠[29]

During the visit Kazakhstan and the United States signed a $1.1 billion agreement to develop the world’s largest untapped tungsten deposits that gives a US company a majority stake in the joint venture, and $17.2 billion in agreements between Kazakh and US companies in mineral resources, digital technologies and aviation, including plans to buy more BoeingBoeingBoeing is an American company that provides commercial airplanes, defense and space systems, and aviation services, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.Open the full entry aircraft. Tokayev said Trump had “managed to achieve outstanding results that seemed unattainable to many,” creating the prerequisites for lasting peace in the Middle East.⁠[29]

The draft of the new constitution was published in the media on February 12, 2026, and put to a referendum on March 15. Preliminary results from the Central Referendum Commission were a turnout of 73.24 percent (9,126,850 of 12,461,796 registered voters), with 7,954,667 votes in favour (87.15 percent of those who voted) and 898,099 against; the commission’s statement on the validity of the vote used a turnout figure of 73.12 percent. The Times of Central Asia gave 146,558 invalid ballots and a turnout of 33.43 percent in Almaty, where nearly 30 percent voted against.⁠[30][31]

The new constitution changed about 84 percent of the text (Chatham House put it at about 80 percent). It created the post of vice president (abolished in 1996), replaced the bicameral parliament with a unicameral one called the Kurultai, established an advisory People’s Council (The Times of Central Asia described the new People’s Council as the Kurultai, with powers to initiate legislation and referendums), required presidential candidates to have at least five years of public service or elected office, kept the one-term limit for the president, and added provisions on citizens’ rights and freedoms, personal data protection, the status of languages and religion, international treaties, special legal regimes in regions and the transparency of foreign funding for organizations, defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Chatham House wrote that it requires a referendum for future constitutional amendments, has the president nominate candidates for the Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, Supreme Audit Chamber and Central Election Commission subject to Kurultai approval, and removes the provision giving international treaties precedence over domestic law.⁠[30][31][32]

After the polls closed he said: “Today we have witnessed a truly historic event for our country,” and announced a new national holiday, Constitution Day, to be celebrated every year on March 15. He congratulated citizens on the adoption of the new constitution and said the referendum had been held at the highest level, openly and fairly.⁠[31][30]

The government said the constitution would modernise and streamline the political system, and Tokayev said the referendum requirement for amendments would prevent “certain political groups” from changing the constitution. Chatham House’s commentary judged that “The changes will cement Tokayev’s grip on power,” and wrote that his current and final mandate ends in 2029 and that he could cite the referendum to justify a new seven-year term, or step down early to become vice president while a successor takes the presidency.⁠[32]

As of November 2026, the official website of the President of Kazakhstan shows him as President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.⁠[1]

Encyclopædia Britannica gives his full name as Kassym-Jomart Kemeluly Tokayev and another romanisation as Kasymzhomart Tokayev; Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty spells his surname Toqaev. The country profile of Kazakhstan published by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs gives a Chinese-character form of his name.⁠[2][33][9]

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty wrote in January 2022 that the Kazakh presidential website said he was divorced with one son, Timur, and that local media had identified his wife as Nadezhda Tokayeva.⁠[33]

His United Nations Office at Geneva biography states that he is fluent in Russian, English and Chinese and has knowledge of French.⁠[5]

He advocates a healthy lifestyle, enjoys reading fiction, political works and memoirs, and headed the Kazakhstan Table Tennis Federation for 13 years.⁠[1][4]

He is the author of 10 books on international relations, holds a doctorate in political science and has the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. The KOSMOS Welt-Almanach entry lists a degree in historical sciences in 1998 and a doctorate in political science in 2001.⁠[1][5][3]

He was elected Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CIS and of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and also served as Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament.⁠[1]

His honorary titles include full member of the World Academy of Humanities and Natural Sciences, member of the Council of the Wise Men of the Munich Security Conference, honorary professor of Shenzhen University and of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry, honorary president of Kazakhstan’s Council on Foreign RelationsCouncil on Foreign RelationsThe Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is a nonpartisan, independent U.S. membership organization and think tank founded in 1921 and based in New York, which has published Foreign Affairs since 1922 and takes no institutional positions on policy; Michael Froman has been its 15th president since 2023.Open the full entry and honorary dean of the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations; the Russian Biographical Society named him among its “Man of the Year – 2018” laureates. He has also received numerous state awards of Kazakhstan and foreign countries and commemorative medals.⁠[1][4]

President of Kazakhstan: Official website: https://akorda.kz/ (opens in a new window).⁠[34]

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Official website: https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mfa (opens in a new window).⁠[27]

United Nations Office at Geneva: Official website: https://www.ungeneva.org/ (opens in a new window).⁠[5]

X: Public account: https://x.com/TokayevKZ (opens in a new window).⁠[34]

Instagram: Public account: https://www.instagram.com/tokayev_online/ (opens in a new window).⁠[34]