Hafiz Pashayev

Hafiz Pashayev Template:Lang-az
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan
Incumbent
Assumed office August 14, 2006
President	Ilham Aliyev
Personal details
Born	(1941-03-02) March 2, 1941 Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union (now Azerbaijan)

Hafiz Pashayev Mir Jalal oglu (Template:Lang-az), born on May 2, 1941, Baku), is the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Government of Azerbaijan since 2006.

Early life

Pashayev was born in Baku, Azerbaijan on May 2, 1941. In 1963, he has been graduated from the Physics Faculty of Azerbaijan State University. After the graduation, he started to work at the Physics Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences until 1967. In 1971, he obtained the Candidate of Sciences degree at the I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow. In 1975-1976, he continued the investigations at the University of California, Irvine. Finally, he obtained the Doctor of Sciences degree in 1984. From 1971 to 1992, Pashayev worked as a scientific employee and a laboratory chief at the Physics Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.

Political career

Hafiz Pashayev started his political career in 1993 as an ambassador of Azerbaijan to the United States (at the same time to Canada and Mexico). He was retained in his post till 2006, when at the same year he was appointed the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Azerbaijan Republic. Pashayev is accountable for the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy established under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Republic. He is the rector of the academy.

Personal life

Hafiz Pashayev is married, he has two children and four grandchildren. Other than his mother tongue Azerbaijani, he speaks fluent English and Russian. He is the son of the well-known writer and literary critic, Mir Jalal Pashayev and the uncle of the Azerbaijan's current First Lady, Mehriban Aliyeva.

External links

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan