Ex-Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev has been appointed State Secretary of Kazakhstan, reports akorda.kz.

“To appoint Sagintayev Bakytzhan Abdirovich as State Secretary of the Republic of Kazakhstan,” the presidential decree said Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Before being appointed to a new position, Sagintayev served as the head of government from September 2016 to February 2019, and even earlier, from January 2013 to September 2016, he served as first deputy prime minister, and from September 2012 to January 2013, before that, he held the post of first deputy prime minister. deputy party "Nur Otan".

Recall, February 21, President N. Nazarbayev made a statement about the decision to dismiss the Cabinet.

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