{{short description|Kazakh politician (born 1953)}} {{Family name hatnote|Saryqyzy|Äitımova|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Byrganym Aitimova | native_name = {{nobold|Бірғаным Әйтімова}} | native_name_lang = kk | image = Byrganym Aitimova UNDP 2009.jpg | caption = Aitimova in 2009 | office = [[Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan]] | term_start = 14 May 2004 | term_end = 13 December 2004 | prime_minister = [[Daniyal Akhmetov]] | office2 = [[Ministry of Education and Science (Kazakhstan)|Minister of Education and Science]] | term_start2 = 13 December 2004 | term_end2 = 10 January 2007 | president2 = [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]] | prime_minister2 = [[Daniyal Akhmetov]] | predecessor2 = [[Zhaksybek Kulekeyev]] | successor2 = [[Zhanseit Tuymenbayev]] | office3 = [[Ministry of Tourism, Physical Education and Sports (Kazakhstan)|Minister of Tourism, Physical Education and Sports]] | term_start3 = 17 December 1993 | term_end3 = 24 January 1996 | president3 = [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]] | prime_minister3 = [[Sergey Tereshchenko]]<br>[[Akezhan Kazhegeldin]] | predecessor3 = [[Qaratai Tūrysov]] | successor3 = [[Temirkhan Dosmukhanbetov]] | office4 = Member of the [[Senate of Kazakhstan|Senate]] | term_start4 = 26 August 2013 | term_end4 = 12 August 2019 | appointer4 = [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]] | term_start5 = 24 January 1996 | term_end5 = 16 October 1996 | appointer5 = [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]] | office6 = Member of the [[Supreme Council of Kazakhstan|Supreme Council]] | term_start6 = 25 March 1990 | term_end6 = 17 December 1993 | office7 = [[Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations]] | term_start7 = 9 February 2007 | term_end7 = 26 August 2013 | president7 = [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]] | predecessor7 = [[Erzhan Kazykhanov]] | successor7 = [[Kairat Abdrakhmanov]] | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1953|02|26}} | birth_place = [[Aqjol|Bakushino]], [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic|Kazakh SSR]], [[Soviet Union]] | alma_mater = [[Oral State Pedagogical University]]<br>[[Al-Farabi Kazakh National University]] | party = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPSU]] (1977–1988)<br>[[People's Congress of Kazakhstan|People's Congress]] (1993)<br>[[People's Union of Kazakhstan Unity]] (until 1999) | spouse = Nūrlan Abdullaev | children = Säken<br>Sabina }} '''Bırğanym Saryqyzy Äitımova''' ({{langx|kk|Бірғаным Сарықызы Әйтімова}}, born 26 February 1953)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kazakhstanun.org/mission_to_the_un/ambassadormessage/AmbassadorsCV.html |title=CV of Mrs. Byrganym Aitimova |work=Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan to the United Nations |accessdate=6 July 2010 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628125241/http://www.kazakhstanun.org/mission_to_the_un/ambassadormessage/AmbassadorsCV.html |archivedate=28 June 2010 }}</ref> is a Kazakh politician and diplomat who was a member of the [[Senate of Kazakhstan|Kazakh Senate]] from 2013 to 2019 and in 1996. She served as the Ambassador of [[Kazakhstan]] to the [[United Nations]], [[Cuba]], and [[Solomon Islands]] concurrently from 2007 to 2013.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.un.org/press/en/2007/bio3864.doc.htm|title=New Permanent Representative Of Kazakhstan Presents Credentials|date=16 March 2007|publisher=United Nations|access-date=24 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.akorda.kz/ru/page/page_214579_ukazom-glavy-gosudarstva-aitimova-byrganym-sarievna-osvobozhdena-ot-dolzhnosti-postoyannogo-predstav|title=Указы|date=26 August 2013|trans-title=Decrees|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150408004228/http://www.akorda.kz/ru/page/page_214579_ukazom-glavy-gosudarstva-aitimova-byrganym-sarievna-osvobozhdena-ot-dolzhnosti-postoyannogo-predstav|archive-date=8 April 2015|url-status=}}</ref> Prior to her appointment as UN ambassador, she was the [[Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan]] from 2004 to 2005 and then the [[Ministry of Education and Science (Kazakhstan)|Minister of Education and Science]] until [[Zhanseit Tuymenbayev]] replaced her on 10 January 2007.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="APPOINTMENT">[http://www.azertag.com/en/index.shtml?language=english&catid=&news_year=&news_month=&news_day=&newsid=216365&themes_viewing=&themes_page=&themeid=&news_page= President of Kazakhstan forming cabinet], [[AzerTaj]]</ref> She served as Kazakhstan's Ambassador to [[Italy]] from 2002 to 2004, and ambassador to [[Israel]] from 1996 to 2002.<ref name=":0" />
== Biography ==
=== Early life and education === Aitimova was born in 1953 in the village of [[Aqjol|Bakushino]] (now Aqjol), [[West Kazakhstan Region]]. She graduated from the A.S. Pushkin Oral Pedagogical Institute with a specialty of English language, and then in 1994 from the Faculty of Law at [[Al-Farabi Kazakh National University]] with a degree in law.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Айтимова Бырганым Сариевна (персональная справка)|url=https://online.zakon.kz/Document/?doc_id=30762931|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-28|website=Информационная система ПАРАГРАФ|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831092041/http://online.zakon.kz:80/Document/?doc_id=30762931 |archive-date=31 August 2013 }}</ref>
=== Early career === After graduating from the institute in 1974, she worked as a teacher at a secondary school in the [[West Kazakhstan Region]], then, in 1976–1979, she was a secretary of the [[Komsomol]] Committee of the State Farm, head of the sector, and head of a department of the Oral Regional Committee of the Young Communist League of Kazakhstan.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Айтимова Бырганым Сариевна ▷ биография, фото, должность|url=https://kapital.kz/dossier/ajtimova-byrganym|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-28|website=Kapital.kz|date=10 January 2019 |language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904114604/https://kapital.kz/dossier/ajtimova-byrganym/ |archive-date=4 September 2019 }}</ref>
She was elected the First Secretary of the Oral City Committee of the Komsomol in 1979, and in 1981–the First Secretary of the Oral Regional Committee. From 1983, Aitimova worked as secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol until 1987, when she became the deputy chair of the Board of the Kazakh Branch of the Lenin Soviet Children's Fund.<ref name=":1" />
=== Political and diplomatic career === From 1990 to 1993, Aitimova was the member of the [[Supreme Council of Kazakhstan]] where she served as the chair of the Committee for Youth Affairs.<ref name=":1" /> On 17 December 1993, she was appointed as the Youth, Tourism and Sports Minister by President [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]] and served in the post until being appointed as a member of the newly established [[Senate of Kazakhstan]] on 24 January 1996. That same year on 16 October 1996, Aitimova became the Kazakh ambassador to [[Israel]].
On 7 August 2002, Aitimova was appointed as a Kazakh Ambassador to [[Italy]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://e-history.kz/upload/iblock/56d/56dc940c0b738a5304f092ac707e9586.pdf|title=Первый Президент Республики Казахстан Нурсултан Назарбаев. Хроника деятельности. 2002 год.|publisher=Астана: Деловой Мир|year=2010|isbn=978-601-7259-01-3|location=Astana|pages=107|language=ru}}</ref> From there she worked in the post until she was appointed as a [[Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan]] under [[Daniyal Akhmetov Cabinet|Daniyal Akhmetov's government]] on 14 May 2004.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://e-history.kz/upload/iblock/fa7/fa7a56448e7110298af7fbdcc6e2cb11.pdf|title=Первый Президент Республики Казахстан Нурсултан Назарбаев. Хроника деятельности. 2004 год.|publisher=Деловой мир Астана|year=2009|isbn=978-601-80044-3-8|location=Astana|pages=67, 59|language=ru}}</ref> From 13 December 2004, Aitimova was the Education and Science Minister until being dismissed on 10 January 2007.<ref name=":2" /><ref name="APPOINTMENT" /> The following month on 9 February 2007, she was appointed as [[Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations]] and from 16 May 2007, as an Ambassador of Kazakhstan to [[Cuba]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Бырганым Айтимова вручила верительные грамоты вице-президенту Госсовета Кубы|url=https://www.zakon.kz/95673-byrganym-ajjtimova-vruchila-veritelnye.html|access-date=2021-03-28|website=Zakon.kz|language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://e-history.kz/ru/library/read/24751/|title=Первый Президент Республики Казахстан Нурсултан Назарбав. Хроника Деятельности 2007 год.|publisher=Деловой мир Астана|year=2009|isbn=978-9965-9591-9-6|location=Astana|pages=33, 81|language=ru}}</ref>
On 26 August 2013, by the presidential decree, Aitimova was relieved of the posts of the Representative of Kazakhstan to the [[United Nations|UN]], ambassador to [[Cuba]] and [[Solomon Islands]] and was appointed as a [[Senate of Kazakhstan|Senator]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=tengrinews.kz|date=2013-08-26|title=Назарбаев назначил депутатов Сената Парламента|url=https://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/nazarbaev-naznachil-deputatov-senata-parlamenta-240504/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-28|website=Tengrinews.kz|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829064456/http://tengrinews.kz:80/kazakhstan_news/nazarbaev-naznachil-deputatov-senata-parlamenta-240504/ |archive-date=29 August 2013 }}</ref> She worked as member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Defense and Security from 17 October 2014 and the chair of the Committee on Social and Cultural Development and Science from 19 September 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Постановление Сената Парламента Республики Казахстан от 4 сентября 2017 года № 213-VI "Об избрании председателя постоянного Комитета по социально-культурному развитию и науке Сената Парламента Республики Казахстан"|url=https://online.zakon.kz/Document/?doc_id=32484435|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-28|website=Информационная система ПАРАГРАФ|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105213400/https://online.zakon.kz/Document/?doc_id=32484435 |archive-date=5 January 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Елюбаева|first=Айнагуль|date=2016-09-16|title=Бырганым Айтимова перешла в другой комитет сената|url=https://kapital.kz/naznacheniya/53686/byrganym-aytimova-pereshla-v-drugoy-komitet-senata.html|access-date=2021-03-28|website=Kapital.kz|language=ru}}</ref> On 12 August 2019, by the Decree of President [[Kassym-Jomart Tokayev]], Aitimova was dismissed from the Senate as her term expired after working there for almost six years.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tusupbekova|first=Laura|date=2019-08-12|title=Senate deputy powers of Byrganym Aitimova terminated|url=https://www.kazpravda.kz/en/news/politics/senate-deputy-powers-of-byrganym-aitimova-terminated|access-date=2021-03-28|website=kazpravda.kz}}</ref> In response to the decision, Aitimova responded saying:<blockquote>I take it right. In accordance with the law, deputies of the Senate are appointed by decree of the Head of State, and upon the expiration of their mandate, their powers are terminated. All of this is legal. I am grateful towards Elbasy [Nursultan Nazarbayev], the President [Kassym-Jomart Tokayev], Dariga Nazarbayeva for giving me the opportunity to work at all stages of my career."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Айтжанова|first=Ботагоз|date=2019-08-12|title=Бырганым Айтимова: Моя политическая карьера закончена|url=https://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/byirganyim-aytimova-moya-politicheskaya-karera-zakonchena-376307/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-28|website=Tengrinews.kz|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812143410/https://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/byirganyim-aytimova-moya-politicheskaya-karera-zakonchena-376307/ |archive-date=12 August 2019 }}</ref></blockquote>After being dismissed, Aitimova expressed her interests in doing career in business despite admitting not having experience in it, she stated any interests in working in position that would "suit herself, abilities and capabilities".<ref name=":3" /> However just few months later on 1 October 2019, Aitimova was elected as the deputy chair of the Council of Senators, an advisory body where current and former senators develop proposals, exchange experience, and conduct events aimed at the development of [[Parliamentary sovereignty|parliamentarism]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Абубакарова|first=Тамара|date=2019-10-01|title=Бырганым Айтимова стала заместителем председателя Совета сенаторов|url=https://informburo.kz/novosti/byrganym-aytimova-stala-zamestitelem-predsedatelya-soveta-senatorov-96391.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-28|website=informburo.kz|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001073701/https://informburo.kz/novosti/byrganym-aytimova-stala-zamestitelem-predsedatelya-soveta-senatorov-96391.html |archive-date=1 October 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=2019-10-01|title=Бырганым Айтимова получила новую должность|url=https://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/byirganyim-aytimova-poluchila-novuyu-doljnost-380456/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-28|website=Tengrinews.kz|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002141848/https://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/byirganyim-aytimova-poluchila-novuyu-doljnost-380456/ |archive-date=2 October 2019 }}</ref>
== Controversy == Aitimova was criticized for expressing condemnation of [[Jeltoqsan|1986 Jeltoqsan event]], where young Kazakh students gathered in [[Republic Square, Almaty|Republic Square]] to protest the central Soviet government while she served as a secretary of the central committee of [[Komsomol]] of the Kazakh SSR. Aitimova claimed that most students sharply expressed the hooligan actions of individual young people with a nationalist mindset and believed that they cannot represent interests and speak on behalf of the entire student body of the city.<ref>{{Cite web|title="Я, Айтимова Б., секретарь ЦК ЛКСМ Казахстана, в связи с негативными националистическими проявлениями отдельных молодых людей…"|url=https://zonakz.net/2006/10/31/%d1%8f-%d0%b0%d0%b9%d1%82%d0%b8%d0%bc%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b0-%d0%b1-%d1%81%d0%b5%d0%ba%d1%80%d0%b5%d1%82%d0%b0%d1%80%d1%8c-%d1%86%d0%ba-%d0%bb%d0%ba%d1%81%d0%bc-%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%b7%d0%b0%d1%85/|access-date=2021-03-28|website=zonakz.net|language=ru-RU|archive-date=6 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306111641/https://zonakz.net/2006/10/31/%D1%8F-%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0-%D0%B1-%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C-%D1%86%D0%BA-%D0%BB%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%BC-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%85/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
On the third annual international conference of [[Bolashak]], Aitimova gave an "inarticulate" speech, where she called [[Kazakhs]] an "ambitious nation", and, when speaking about the [[United Nations]]' goals to end illiteracy, she joked that "the special nation" "knows writing and reading since birth".<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://informburo.kz/novosti/senator-aytimova-proiznesla-nevnyatnuyu-rech-pro-ne-takih-kak-vse-kazahov-i-izzhogu-u-gossluzhashchih.html |title= Айтимова произнесла невнятную речь про "не таких как все" казахов и изжогу у чиновников |language= ru |website= informburo.kz |date= 2016-10-07 |access-date= 2024-05-02}}</ref> In one of his shows, then-comedian [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]] played a clip of her being inarticulate with her speech and commented on it, likening her to Ukrainian [[Vitali Klitschko]].<ref name="tengrinews">{{Cite web|last= Ташкинбаев |first= Ренат |url= https://tengrinews.kz/article/byirganyim-aytimova-zelenskom-on-doljen-nebolshoy-moralnyiy-1145/ |title= Бырганым Айтимова о Зеленском: "Он мне должен за небольшой моральный ущерб" |language= ru |website= informburo.kz |date= 2016-10-07 |access-date= 2024-05-02}}</ref> Years later, when Zelenskyy won in the [[2019 Ukrainian presidential election]], Aitimova commented on the jokes, stating that it was "obviously unpleasant", but perhaps jokingly, said that he owed her for "moral damage".<ref name="tengrinews" />
== Family == Aitimova is married to Nurlan Bek-Alievich Abdullaev and has two children Saken (born 1971) and Sabina (born 1989).
== Awards == * Order of Dostyk 2 degrees (2006) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://online.zakon.kz/Document/?doc_id=30762931#pos=1;-60|title = Айтимова Бырганым Сариевна (персональная справка)}}</ref> * [[Order of Parasat]] * [[Order of Kurmet]] (2001) * [[Order of the Badge of Honor]] (1984) * Certificate of Presidium of the Supreme Council of the [[Kazakh SSR]]
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