Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah

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Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah ( Arabic أحمدو ولد عبد الله; Born November 21, 1940 ) is a Mauritanian diplomat and former Senior United Nations Official . He is the head of the United Nations Political Bureau for Somalia .

Ould-Abdallah studied economics at the Universities of Grenoble and the University of Paris and political science at the Sorbonne . Between 1971 and 1985 he held several state offices in Mauritania. Among other things, he was Foreign Minister and Minister for Development Policy. He also served as his country's ambassador to the United States and the European Union .

In 2006 he was sent on a mission to Sudan by the then Secretary-General of the United Nations , Kofi Annan .

Publications

  • Ould-Abdallah, Ahmedou, Burundi on the Brink, 1993–95: A UN Special Envoy Reflects on Preventive Diplomacy, Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2000. ISBN 1-929223-00-5
  • Ould-Abdallah, Ahmedou, La Diplomatie Pyromane: Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, Bosnia…: Entretiens avec Stephen Smith, Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1997. ISBN 978-2-7021-2672-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, DECEMBER 19, 2006 , United Nations. December 19, 2006. Retrieved December 8, 2008. 

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personal data
SURNAME Ould-Abdallah, Ahmedou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES أحمدو ولد عبد الله (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mauritanian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1940