Jean-Marie Ehouzou
Jean-Marie Ehouzou (born September 1950 ) is a diplomat and politician from Benin .
biography
After joining the Diplomatic Service , he was promoted to Deputy Director for Africa and the Middle East and Communities in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993, and was then Director of External Resources Coordination at the Ministry of Planning, Economic Restructuring and Employment Promotion between 1996 and 2000. He then returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director for International Organizations , before being appointed Ambassador to Ethiopia from 2003 to 2006 . As such, he was not only accredited to Kenya , Sudan and Djibouti , but also as a permanent representative to the African Union and the UN Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa .
On September 29, 2006, he was appointed Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York by the new President Boni Yayi .
As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs, African Integration, Francophonie and Benin Abroad in President Yayi's cabinet on October 22, 2008 . In July 2009 he took part in a conference of the African Union on the establishment of a joint executive authority of the organization in Surt ( Libya ) and was the only representative of the participating states to give a press conference after 15 hours of negotiations. At the negotiation it was agreed that this executive agency would have far fewer powers than the host, the Libyan revolutionary leader Muammar al-Gaddafi , requested.
In May 2011 he was replaced as Foreign Minister by Nassirou Bako-Arifari .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ rulers.org: October 22, 2008
- ↑ Cabinet list of the new Beninese government ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ African Authority takes shape in AU
- ↑ African heads of state and government agree on a plan to strengthen the African Union ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Defeat for Libya's head of state Gaddafi at the AU summit
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| SURNAME | Ehouzou, Jean-Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Beninese politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1950 |