André Joseph Wright

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André Joseph Wright (left) with US President Gerald Ford (1976)

André Joseph Wright (born December 1, 1936 in Niamey ; † May 10, 2010 ibid) was a Nigerien diplomat .

Life

André Joseph Wright studied at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Montpellier and then completed his diplomatic training at the Institut des hautes études d'Outre-Mer in Paris . He joined the Nigerien Foreign Ministry in 1962. Wright has served at various embassies abroad, such as First Secretary in Paris and First Secretary and then Counselor in Washington, DC There he became President of the Africa Group at the United Nations . He then worked from 1967 to 1972 in various leading positions at the Organization for African Unity and then at the Nigerien Foreign Ministry in Niamey.

After the coup by the Supreme Military Council , André Joseph Wright was appointed Niger's ambassador to Abidjan in Ivory Coast in 1974. He was also accredited as ambassador to Guinea and Sierra Leone . In 1976 he became Niger's Ambassador to Washington, DC in the United States instead of Illa Salifou . He also worked as Niger’s permanent representative to the United Nations and was also accredited as ambassador to South Korea . As ambassador to the United States, he was replaced by Joseph Diatta in 1982 . From 1983 to 1985 he worked again for the Organization for African Unity and most recently worked again at the Foreign Ministry in Niamey.

Wright retired in 1989. From November 1991 to April 1993 he took on a political office: He was a member of the High Council of the Republic , the transitional parliament of Niger after the end of the rule of the Supreme Military Council.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Disparition, lundi dernier, de l'ambassadeur André Joseph Wright: le Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, de la Coopération, de l'Intégration Africaine et des Nigériens à l'Extérieur rend hommage à un diplomate de carrière. In: Niger Diaspora. May 14, 2009, accessed June 16, 2017 (French).
  2. ↑ Aboubacar Kio Koudizé: La Diplomatie nigérienne . NIN, Niamey 2009, p. 82 .
  3. ^ A b Diplomatic Representation for Niger. United States Department of State, accessed June 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Wright, André Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Niamey
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2010
Place of death Niamey