Ali Audjali

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Ali Suleiman Audjali ( Arabic علي الأوجلي, DMG ʿAlī al-Auǧalī , also Ojli ; * 1944 in Benghazi ) is a Libyan diplomat and his country's foreign minister since November 2, 2012.

Audjali began his diplomatic career in 1971 when he became Third Secretary at the Libyan Embassy in London . In 1976 he became First Secretary at the Libyan Embassy in Malaysia . In 1981 he was appointed Libyan ambassador to Malaysia. In 1984 he became the Libyan ambassador to Argentina . Subsequently, Audjali was ambassador to Brazil from 1988 to 1994 . Audjali has now returned to Libya and worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1994 to 1998 he served as deputy general manager of the Americas division. He then worked from 1998 to 2000 as General Director of the North and South America Department and finally from 2000 to 2001 General Director of the Department for European Affairs.

In 2001 he was posted again as a diplomat. From 2001 to 2004 he was charge d'affaires at the Libyan Embassy in Canada . During this time, he founded the Libya-Canada Business Council . Subsequently, from 2004 onwards, Audjali headed the Libyan Interests Section in Washington, DC. When it was upgraded to an embassy in 2009, Audjali became the first Libyan ambassador to the United States since diplomatic relations were resumed on January 6, 2009 . In February 2011, after he had already distanced himself from the government, he resigned from his post as ambassador in protest against state violence in the wake of the uprising in Libya .

Some of his counterparts, including those in India ( Ali al-Essawi ) and Germany (Jamal Ali Omar), resigned. Libya's permanent representative to the United Nations, Abdelrahman Schalgam , a friend of Audjali, also turned away from Gaddafi.

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  1. ↑ http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFN2227065120110222
  2. ↑ spiegel.de February 2, 2011
  3. ↑ Libya's ex-ambassador Aujali: Defector with ambitions . In: SPIEGEL ONLINE . March 28, 2011. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Audjali, Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Audjali, Ali Suleiman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Libyan diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Benghazi