Mohamed Salah Dembri

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Mohamed Salah Dembri ( Arabic محمد صالح دمبري; born on January 30, 1938 in El Harrouch , Wilaya Skikda ; died on January 2, 2020 in France ) was an Algerian diplomat and politician who was Algeria's Foreign Minister between 1993 and 1996.

Life

After attending school, Dembri graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Paris . In the following years he was among other things Secretary General of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Secretary General of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. After serving as Secretary General of the State Department from 1979 to 1982, he served as Ambassador to Canada from 1982 to 1984 . He then worked as an advisor to the government on political and diplomatic matters. In 1992 he became ambassador to Greece and remained in this post until 1993.

After his return, Dembri took over the office of Foreign Minister in 1993 from Redha Malek , who in turn took over as Prime Minister on 23 August 1993 and formed a new government. Dembri held the post of Foreign Minister until 1996 in the subsequent governments of Prime Ministers Mokdad Sifi and Ahmed Ouyahia .

He then became Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva in 1996 and remained in this post until 2005. At the same time, Dembri was accredited as Ambassador to the Holy See between 1997 and 2004 . As permanent representative at the UN in Geneva, he was chairman of the UNCD (UN Conference on Disarmament) in 1999 and chairman of the working group on development rights there between 2000 and 2001 and then chairman of a working group of the Commission on Human Rights from 2001 to 2003, before chairing it in 2004 of the Executive Committee of the 101st session of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Dembri was most recently accredited as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom from September 2005 to 2010 . He was also the founder of the National Institute for Global Strategic Studies and the author of numerous articles in professional journals. He was married and had two children.

Web links

  • Entry in rulers.org
  • Biography on the UK Embassy homepage (archive version)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ^ Algeria: Foreign Ministers
  3. ^ Middle East Yearbook 1993: Politics, Economy and Society in North Africa and the Near and Middle East , p. 61, Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 3-3229-5968-6
  4. ^ Middle East Yearbook 1994: Politics, Economy and Society in North Africa and the Near and Middle East , p. 61, Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 3-3229-5767-5
  5. ↑ Middle East Yearbook 1995: Politics, Economy and Society in North Africa and the Near and Middle East , p. 61, Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 3-3229-5734-9
  6. ↑ Heather Deegan: Third Worlds: Politics in the Middle East and Africa , p. 203, Routledge, 2002, ISBN 1-1348-2764-4
personal data
SURNAME Dembri, Mohamed Salah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Algerian politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH El Harrouch , Wilaya , Skikda , Algeria
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2020