Kairat Shorauly Sarybay (; born 8 June 1966) is a Kazakh diplomat who serves as the first Secretary-General of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA).
He previously served as the Executive Director of the CICA Secretariat from 2020 to 2022, before the position's title was adjusted to Secretary-General in accordance with the CICA transformation process launched at the Sixth CICA Summit on 13 October 2022.
In 2025, he announced that the next CICA summit will be held in Baku in 2026 under the presidency of Azerbaijan.
Sarybay joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan in August 1991, serving as the head of the Protocol Service of the president from 1996 to 1997 and press secretary and head of the Press Service of the president from 1997 to 1998.
From 1998 to 1999, from 2007 to 2008, and from 2010 to 2014 he served as the deputy minister for foreign affairs of Kazakhstan. He also served as assistant to the president of Kazakhstan on foreign policy issues from 2008 to 2010.
He served as Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Turkey from 1999 to 2003, becoming the youngest ambassador in the history of Kazakhstan, as Ambassador to Germany from 2003 to 2007, and as Ambassador to Austria and Permanent Representative to the international organisations in Vienna from 2014 to 2020.
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