Pulat Abdullayev

Who is Pulat Abdullayev?

Pulat Habibovich Abdullayev is a Russian career diplomat.

Abdullayev graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1966, and went on to work in various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad.

From 1991 to 26 May 1995, Abdullayev was the Ambassador of Russia to Djibouti. When the Russian Federation formed in 1993, he was promoted to the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation by Boris Yeltsin on October 18, 1993. He left that post on May 26, 1995.

Serving as the lead advisor of the Department of Security and Disarmament of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdullayev represented the Russian Federation at the Disarmament Commission of the United Nations. He led the team of Russian diplomats responsible for Safeguards, Transparency and Irreversibility talks with the United States on the exchange of information on disarmament. In April 1999, he testified before the Commission that the NATO incursion in the Balkans would be detrimental for the progress of ratifying the 1993 START II arms treaty.