The guest lecture of the Kazakh diplomat Arman Tynybek

The guest lecture of the Kazakh diplomat Arman Tynybek was held at the Faculty of International Relations at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

On December 8, 2023, a Kazakh diplomat, an employee of the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Arman Tynybek, gave a lecture to students and teachers of the faculty of international relations.

The lecture was devoted to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and its role in the modern world. Arman Tynybek noted that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation is the largest after the UN in terms of the number of its member countries (57). He dwelt in detail on the structure and functional features of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, on its evolution. Initially, the Organization was founded in 1969 at a conference of heads of Muslim states in Rabat and was called as Organization of Islamic Cooperation. At that time, the activities of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation were aimed at maintaining Islamic solidarity in the social, economic and political spheres and in the fight against colonialism and racism, as well as in support of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Today, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation is logically adapted to the international system of relations.

A. Tynybek spoke about the conflicts of rebranding the Organization, about how at the 38th session at Organization of the Islamic Conference Council of Foreign Ministers in 2011 in Astana, the conference was renamed as Organization of Islamic Cooperation. In 2013, Kazakhstan initiated the creation of the Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS) under the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which very soon became an independent international intergovernmental organization. IOFS is headquartered in Astana. Arman Tynybek, answering many questions, named the implemented projects aimed at providing humanitarian assistance, including the Afghanistan Food Security Program (AFSP), sending a humanitarian convoy to Afghanistan at the expense of Kazakhstan, providing assistance to Syria in Aleppo, etc. Kazakh students from foreign countries (Syria, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, France, Germany) discussed with interest the lecturer on the Syrian issue and the conflict between Israel and Palestine, religious confessions, the role of Iran and other Muslim countries in the world, Muslim minorities in non-Organization of Islamic Cooperation countries, etc. Expressing gratitude to Arman Tynybek for the meeting, prof. Gubaidullina M.Sh. expressed the desire of all participants of new productive events.

Arman Tynybek is one of the best graduates of the faculty of international relations in 1999, a career diplomat, a high-level specialist with long experience in the diplomatic service (in the central office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the RK, the embassies of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Turkmenistan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Uzbekistan, Pakistan). More recently, he was invited to the General Secretariat of Organization of Islamic Cooperation as an experienced specialist and is currently successfully working in this Organization (Jeddah) in the cooperation direction in the field of science and technology.