Consul General's Bio

Elin Suleymanov
Consul General

On November 14, 2005, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev appointed Elin Suleymanov as Azerbaijan’s first Consul General to Los Angeles, California with personal rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Prior to that he served as Senior Counselor at the Foreign Relations Department, Office of the President in Baku, Azerbaijan and as Press Officer of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Washington, DC. Before joining diplomatic service, Mr. Suleymanov worked with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Azerbaijan and with the Open Media Research Institute in Prague, Czech Republic.

A graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts, Mr. Suleymanov also holds graduate degrees from the Political Geography department of the Moscow State University, Russia, and from the University of Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Suleymanov speaks Azerbaijani, English, Russian and Czech languages.

For Elin Suleymanov’s profile by the Fletcher School click here

Selected articles and interviews by Elin Suleymanov:

-America needs long-termregional strategy

-Azerbaijani Consulate General in LA hosts seminar for students in California

-The Price of Freedom: Remembering January 20, 1990; The Huffington Pos

- Azeri consul in LA: "Turkey recognizes Azerbaijan's leading regional role

- The Promise of Visionary Pragmatism

- Making history in person: View from Azerbaijan

Presentation by Elin Suleymanov at Colorado Foothills World Affairs Council, October 21, 2008

Azerbaijan Consul General Elin Suleymanov speaks in Colorado

Azerbaijan, Wyoming share same values, by Elin Suleymanov Wyoming News

A view on America's diverse elections, by Elin Suleymanov, Special to the Rocky Mountain News, Colorado September 28, 2008

Talking Nagorno-Karabakh issue, Turkish Journal, Saturday, August 9,2008

Bringing Azerbaijani Mugham to Ojai; By Elin Suleymanov in Ojai Post http://www.ojaipost.com/2008/06/azerbaijan-elin-suleymanov.shtml

For many Azerbaijanis, Karabakh is home; Turkish Daily News, Saturday, June 14, 2008 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=107183

Azerbaijan – A Partner for Europe in Energy Security; From the newly pusblished book:Europe's Energy Security: Gazprom's Dominance and Caspian Supply
Alternatives, Edited by Svante Cornell & Niklas Nilsson © 2007 Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program – A Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center
Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, 1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington,
D.C. 20036; Institute for Security and Development Policy, Västra
Finnbodavägen 2, 131 30 Nacka, Stockholm

Azerbaijan Consul General Suleymanov finds kinship on the reservation

From Azerbaijan to Idaho...

Consul General's interview with Bill Handel at KFI AM -640

Expanding Westward - Azerbaijan International, Autumn 2006, (14/3)

Diplomats and Scholars Share Insights on the Caucasus and Russia's

Consul General's interview to Azeri-Press Agency (APA)

Azerbaijani Consul General Discusses Shift in Regional Balance, while speaking to an audience at The Fletcher School on December 12,2006

Azerbaijan: The Wider Black Sea's Caspian Keystone (Chapter from: NEXT STEPS IN FORGING A EUROATLANTIC STRATEGY FOR THE WIDER BLACK SEA, edited by
Ronal D.Asmus, November 2006. Published by the German Marshall Fund of the US)

The fires of opportunity? Turkish Daily News, September 15, 2006

"Ali and Nino" by Kurban Said. Inside the Soul of a Caucasian.
Book Review by Elin Suleymanov

Azerbaijan, Azerbaijanis and the Search for Identity

Emergence of New Political Identity in the South Caucasus: Energy, Security, Strategic Location and Pragmatism

Shusha: The Broken Heart of Karabakh

Boxcars, Dugout Shelters and Promises to Keep. Azerbaijan's Refugees

Ten Years On; UN Resolutions Still Not Implemented

Youth in Search of the Future. Identity Changes in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan

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