Mr. Khamrokhon Zarifi was born on December 25, 1948 in Tajikistan. In 1971 he graduated from Physical and Mathematical faculty of Kulyab State University in Tajikistan. From 1971 till 1974 Mr. Zarifi worked as lecturer in the Kulyab State University and did scientific work at the Physical and Technical Scientific-Research Institute in Dushanbe.

From 1974 till 1984 he was coordinator in the Kulyab Regional Executive Committee and between 1984 and 1993 held various posts in the Party organization and the Government of Tajikistan. In 1993 Khamrokhon Zarifi joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan as Deputy Chief of Personnel Department and later in 1994 as Chief of the Department. Since 1995 till 1996 he was appointed as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
From 1996 until 2003 Mr. Zarifi served as Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna and Head of the Delegation of the Republic of Tajikistan to the OSCE (1996-2003), Head of Mission of the Republic of Tajikistan to European Communities (1997-2001), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tajiikistan to the Austrian Republic (1997-2003), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tajiikistan to Switzerland (1998-2003), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Republic of Tajiikistan to the Republic of Hungary (1999-2002), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tajiikistan to the United States of America (2002-2006). On December 2006, Mr. Khamrokhon Zarifi was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan.
Mr. Zarifi is fluent in Persian, Russian and English languages.
He is married and has two children.

Quick facts about the Ministry
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs consists of the following departments:
Human resource and special information management department.

Department of countries of Europe and America

Department of countries of Asia and Africa

Department of CIS countriesDepartment of relations with International organizations

National UNESCO CommissionLegal department

Consular department

State Protocol department

Information department

Strategic research and analysis department

Foreign exchange and financial department

Diplomatic corps service department

Operational department

Contact address:

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Rudaki Ave 42, Dushanbe,
Republic of Tajikistan 734001
tel: (992-37) 221-1808, 223-2971
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