The previous Ambassador to Hungary, Talantbek Kushchubekov, has been relieved of his post.

Erlan Abdyldaev graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1989 with a degree in international relations. He is fluent in Chinese and English.

He worked in the Department of Socialist Countries of Asia of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1989; assistant) and at the USSR/Russian Embassy in China (1989-1994 as attaché and third secretary of the embassy).

From 1994 to 1997, he served as an assistant and consultant-expert in the International Department of the Administration of the President of Kyrgyzstan. Since 1997, he has worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Deputy Director of the First Political Department (1997-1998), Deputy Minister and Director of the First Political Department, and First Deputy Minister (1998-2001).

From 2001 to 2005, he served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kyrgyzstan to the People’s Republic of China, as well as (concurrently) to Mongolia, the Republic of Singapore, and the Kingdom of Thailand.

Since 2005, he has been an expert at the Institute of Public Policy, and from 2007 to 2012, he was Director of the Kyrgyz branch of the International Institute for War and Peace Reporting.

Since September 6, 2012, he has been the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan. He holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

On April 12, 2022, he was appointed Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan.