Georgiy Mamedov

Georgiy Mamedov
Георгий Мамедов
Mamedov in 2014
Russian Ambassador to Canada
In office
5 June 2003 – 24 October 2014
PresidentVladimir Putin
Dmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin
Preceded byVitaly Churkin
Succeeded byAlexander Darchiev
Personal details
Born
Georgiy Enverovich Mamedov
Гео́ргий Энве́рович Маме́дов

(1947-09-09) 9 September 1947 (age 77)
Moscow, Soviet Union
(now Russia)
Alma materMoscow State Institute of International Relations

Georgiy Enverovich Mamedov (Russian: Георгий Энверович Мамедов; born 9 September 1947) is a Russian diplomat of Azerbaijani descent, and one of Russia's foremost authorities on the United States and Canada. In the 1990s and the early 2000s, he was his country's chief interlocutor with the United States on such subjects as NATO, arms control and Kosovo.

Mamedov served as Russia's ambassador to Canada between 2003 and 2014.[1]

  1. ^ Georgiy Mamedov's official biography and photo, at the site of Russian Embassy in Canada