This is a list of
ambassadors of the United States to
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
.
Kazakhstan had been a
constituent Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) of the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
. Upon dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan declared independence on December 16, 1991. It was the last of the Soviet republics to declare independence.
The United States
recognized Kazakhstan ten days later on December 26, 1991. The U.S.
embassy
A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually deno ...
was established in
Almaty
Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the List of most populous cities in Kazakhstan, largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to ...
(then named Alma-Ata) on February 3, 1992, with
William Harrison Courtney as ''chargé d'affaires ad interim''. He was subsequently appointed as the first U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan.
In 1997 the nation's capital was moved to
Astana, where the U.S. embassy is now located.
Ambassadors
See also
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Kazakhstan – United States relations
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Foreign relations of Kazakhstan
Foreign relations of Kazakhstan are primarily based on economic and political security. The Nazarbayev administration has tried to balance relations with Russia and the United States by sending petroleum and natural gas to its northern neighbor a ...
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Ambassadors of the United States
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List of ambassadors of Kazakhstan to the United States
References
United States Department of State: Background notes on Kazakhstan*
External links
United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for KazakhstanUnited States Department of State: KazakhstanUnited States Embassy in Astana
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
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United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...