The Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad
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Last Name : |
ATTAF |
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First Name : |
Ahmed |
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Date and place of birth: |
July 10, 1953 in Ain Defla |
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Marital status: |
Married, father of three children |
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Working languages: |
Arabic, French, English |
Diplomas
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1980 |
English Language Proficiency Diploma, Hunter College, NewYork |
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1977 |
Diploma of high studies in Political Science, University of Algiers |
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1975 |
National School of Administration |
Diplomacy Career
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2001-2004 |
Ambassador of Algeria to the United Kingdom |
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1996-1999 |
Minister of Foreign Affairs |
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1994-1996 |
Spokesperson of the Government |
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1994-1996 |
Secretary of State for Cooperation and Maghreb Affairs |
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1992-1994 |
Ambassador of Algeria to India |
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1989-1991 |
Ambassador of Algeria to Yugoslavia |
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1984-1989 |
Director of International Political Affairs |
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1983-1984 |
United Nations expert on nuclear weapon free zones |
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Member of the Group of Experts on Regional Conventional Disarmament |
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1982-1984 |
Deputy Director of Strategic Affairs and Disarmament-MFA |
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1979-1982 |
Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Algeria to the United Nations in New York, in charge of the 2nd Committee: economic and financial issues |
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1977-1979 |
Head of the Political Affairs Division of the Organization of African Unity -MFA- |
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1977-1977 |
Head of the Multilateral Treaties Division -MFA-. |
Participation in the diplomatic representation activities of Algeria
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1989 |
Member of the Committee of Six and the Tripartite Committee on the Lebanese crisis (Taif Agreement). |
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1981-1985 |
Member of the delegations accompanying President Chadli during his State visits to Washington (1985), Paris (1982) and Moscow (1981). |
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1979-1989 |
Member of the Algerian delegations to the Councils of Ministers and Summits of Heads of State of international and regional organizations including
- The Organization of African Unity, - The League of Arab States, - The Organization of the Islamic Conference, - The Non-Aligned Movement, - The Arab Maghreb Union (including the preparatory meetings for the constitution of the UMA), - The G77 and the G15. |
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1981 |
Spokesperson of the G77 at the Caracas meeting on South-South cooperation |
Political career
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2014-2017 |
Secretary General of the Political Office of "Talaie El Houriyet" party |
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1997 |
President of the parliamentary group of the National Democratic Movement (RND) in the National Popular Assembly (APN) |
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1997 |
RND deputy during the first pluralistic mandate of the APN |
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1997-2008 |
Member of the RND Central Committee |
Academic career
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2009-2013 |
Associate Professor at the National Superior School of Political Sciences of Algiers |
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1977-1978 |
Assistant in constitutional law at the ENA |
Publication
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1998 |
Integrism, a counter-culture in Algeria: Interviews with Bachir Boumaaza, Ahmed Attaf and Abdelkader Tafar, Editions L'Harmattan |