Ambassador Baghdad Amreyev is the Secretary General of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States. From 1996 to 2017 he served as the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and Iran respectively. In 2014, he was appointed as Advisor to the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan. Amreyev has held various additional positions during his 38-year professional career including the post of Special Envoy of Kazakhstan to the OIC, WTO, IEF.