Rashid Alimov, also referred to as Rashid Qutbiddinovich Alimov or Rashid Qutbiddinovich Olimov, (born 23 June 1953) is the former minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan from 1992 to 1994. He was also the Permanent Representative of Tajikistan to the

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from 1994 to 2005, Tajikistan's ambassador to China from 2005 to 2015, and the Secretary-General of the

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from 2016 to 2018.

Career

Alimov was born in Stalinabad (now Dushanbe). He studied history at the

Tajik National University Tajik National University (russian: Таджикский национальный университет; tg, Донишгоҳи Миллии Тоҷикистон, Donishgohi Millii Tojikiston) is the first and largest university in Tajikistan wit ...

, graduating in 1975. He continued to study social sciences at the

Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991, uniting the country's leading scientists, subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (until 1946 ...

, where he earned a doctorate in political science. He became the deputy chair of Tajik National University's joint trade union committee, and spent much of the 1970s working in various positions for the

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...

and the

Communist Party of Tajikistan The Communist Party of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҳизби Коммунистии Тоҷикистон, ''Hizbi Kommunistiyi Tojikiston''; russian: Коммунистическая партия Таджикистана) is a communist party in Tajikistan ...

. In the early 1990s he was a youth representative at the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR, and an advisor to the president of Tajikistan. In 1994 he was named Tajikistan's permanent representative to the United Nations, a post he held until 2005. That year, he became Tajikistan's ambassador to China, working in that role until 2015. In 2017, Alimov worked as the Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. While there, he wrote the book ''SCO: Global Profile in International Relations''.

Selected works

*''SCO: Global Profile in International Relations'' (2018) *"The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: Its role and place in the development of Eurasia", ''Journal of Eurasian studies'' (2018)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alimov, Rashid 1953 births Living people Foreign ministers of Tajikistan Ambassadors of Tajikistan to China Permanent Representatives of Tajikistan to the United Nations Tajikistani political scientists Tajik National University alumni People from Dushanbe