DUSHANBE, November 11, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Tajikistan, Abutalip Akhmetov died suddenly in Dushanbe Wednesday evening.

According to the Kazakh Embassy in Dushanbe, Ambassador Akhmetov died of a heart attack.  “Ambassador Akhmetov’s body will be conveyed to Kazakhstan on Saturday, November 13,” the source said.

Book of Condolences will be open at the Kazakh Embassy in Dushanbe today between 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm and tomorrow between 10:00 am and 12:00 noon and 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm for the members of the diplomatic corps, government officials and well wishers to record their condolences.

Born in 1949, Abutalip Akhmetov graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1977 and took training course at the Diplomatic Academy of the MFA of the Soviet Union in 1990.

Mr. Abutalip Akhmetov had been the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Tajikistan since May 2008.