Doudou Thiam
Doudou Thiam (born February 3, 1926 in Bambey , French West Africa , † July 6, 1999 in Geneva ) was a Senegalese politician , diplomat and lawyer who was Foreign Minister between 1960 and 1962 and again from 1962 to 1968. He was also from 1970 until his death in 1999 a member of the UN - International Law Commission .
Life
Thiam studied law at the University of Paris , from which he graduated in 1946 with a license . He then continued his studies at the University of Poitiers away and put there in 1951 his promotion to the doctorate in law with a thesis entitled La Portée de la citoyenneté française dans les territoires d'outre-mer from. After returning to French West Africa , he worked as a lawyer at the Court of Appeal in Dakar between 1952 and 1958 . At the same time he took over a professorship at the Faculty of Law at the newly founded University of Dakar in 1957 and was also elected a member of the National Assembly in 1957 . After he was Minister of Finance, Economy and Planning of the Mali Federation consisting of French Sudan and Senegal between 1958 and 1959 , he held the post of Justice Minister of Senegal between 1959 and 1960.
Shortly before Senegal's independence from France on June 20, 1960 and the withdrawal from the Mali Federation on August 20, 1960, Thiam was appointed Foreign Minister by President Léopold Sédar Senghor on April 4, 1960. He held this office in the government of Prime Minister Mamadou Dia until November 12, 1962, when André Guillabert succeeded him. Already on December 19, 1962, Thiam replaced Guillabert and held the post of Foreign Minister until March 6, 1968, after which the previous Minister of Justice Alioune Badara Mbengue became his successor. During this time he was also chief delegate in the UN General Assembly . He himself then held the post of President of the Economic and Social Council of Senegal between 1969 and 1970.
In 1970, Thiam member of the UN - International Law Commission and was part of this until his death in 1997. Since 1974 he has also been a rapporteur for the UN International Law Commission and is also a member of the Hague Academy for International Law , the International Law Association and the Center d'Etudes et de Documentation Législatives Africaines in Dakar.
Fonts
- La Portée de la Citoyenneté Française dans les Territoires d'Outre-Mer , 1951
- La politique étrangère des États africains. Ses fondements idéologiques, sa réalité présente, ses perspectives d'avenir , Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1963
- Le fédéralisme africain. Ses principes et ses règles , Présence africaine, Paris, 1972
Web links
- Doudou Thiam in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thiam, Doudou |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Senegalese politician, diplomat and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bambey , French West Africa |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1999 |
| Place of death | Geneva |