Sirojiddin Muhriddin

Sirojiddin Muhriddin (Tajik: Сироҷиддин Муҳриддин; born Sirojiddin Muhriddinovich Aslov (Russian: Сироджиддин Мухриддинович Аслов; 17 February 1964) is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan since 2013. Muhriddin previously worked as a Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to the United Nations from 2006 to 2013.

Sirojiddin Muhriddin
Сироҷиддин Муҳриддин
Muhriddin in 2016
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 November 2013
President	Emomali Rahmon
Preceded by	Hamrokhon Zarifi
Permanent Representative of Tajikistan to the United Nations
In office September 2005 – August 2013
Preceded by	Rashid Alimov
Succeeded by	Mahmadamin Mahmadaminov
Personal details
Born	Sirodjidin Mukhridinovich Aslov (1964-02-17) 17 February 1964 (age 61) Sovetskiy District, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union (now Tajikistan)

Biography

Muhriddin meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 1, 2021.

Muhriddin graduated with an engineering degree in 1986 from Odesa Hydro-Meteorological Institute in Ukraine. Muhriddin continued his studies by receiving an additional degree in International Economic Relations from the Tashkent State University of Economics. In the early stages of Muhriddin's career, he had published several research papers based on the Aral Sea. In the early 2000s, he made a transition into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was first appointed as a deputy minister. While being the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was also Chairman of the Executive Committee for Saving the Aral Sea^[1] and the National Coordinator for Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Affairs. After a year as serving Deputy, Muhriddin was appointed as the Permanent Representative of Tajikistan to the United Nations as well as the non-resident ambassador to Cuba.^[2] After seven years of work within the United Nations he became the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan in 2013.^[3]

Awards

• Order of Glory (Tajikistan) (2010)
• Order of Friendship (Russia) (2017)^[4]
• Order "Fidokorona khizmatlari uchun" (2018)^[5]

Personal life

He is married, with five children, and speaks Persian, English, Uzbek and Russian.^[6]

See also

• List of foreign ministers in 2017
• List of current foreign ministers