Georgiy Mamedov
Georgiy Mamedov | |
|---|---|
Георгий Мамедов | |
Mamedov in 2014 | |
| Russian Ambassador to Canada | |
| In office 5 June 2003 – 24 October 2014 | |
| President | Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev Vladimir Putin |
| Preceded by | Vitaly Churkin |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Darchiev |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Georgiy Enverovich Mamedov Гео́ргий Энве́рович Маме́дов 9 September 1947 Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Alma mater | Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
| Awards | Honored Employee of the Diplomatic Service of the Russian Federation |
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.