Omar Touray

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Omar Alieu Touray (born November 5, 1965 in Gambia) is a politician and diplomat from the West African state of Gambia . He was the country's foreign minister .

Life

In 1987 Touray received his Bachelor of Arts ( Literature and Linguistics ) from Ain Shams University in Cairo . Then took his Master of Social Sciences ( International Relations and International Law ) in 1990 at the University of Helsinki , followed in 1992, the Diplôme d'Études Supérieures (I nt'l. Relations, International Economics and International Law ) at the Graduate Institute of International Studies of the University of Geneva . At the same university he received his PhD in international relations in 1995 .

From September 1993 to December 1994 Touray was a shop steward at the World Indigenous Organization , for which the United Nations maintains an office in Geneva . He then worked as a consultant in the International Labor Office in Geneva until July 1995, when he was appointed first secretary of the embassy in the Gambian Foreign Ministry . There he worked for the embassy in Belgium from September 1995 . The area of ​​responsibility also extended to the Netherlands , Germany , Italy , Luxembourg , the Czech Republic , Poland , Slovakia and the permanent representation to the European Union as well as representation to the World Trade Organization .

In April Touray was appointed Gambia's ambassador to Ethiopia , where he held the additional tasks of permanent representative to the African Union as well as the Economic Commission for Africa , the United Nations Environment Program and as High Commissioner for South Africa and Kenya . From September 2007 he was permanent representative to the United Nations in New York.

On March 19, 2008, he was the Cabinet Yahya Jammeh called and took to succeed Crispin Gray-Johnson , the function of the foreign minister ( Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ) of the country. He was sworn into office on March 26, 2008. On September 11, 2009, he handed over his portfolio to Ousman Jammeh .

Touray is married and has three children.

Works

  • The Gambia and the world. A history of the foreign policy of Africa's smallest state, 1965 - 1995 . Inst. For Africa customer, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-928049-66-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ President Jammeh presides over swearing of three new Secretaries of State, Secretary General, Secretary to Cabinet , Office of the Gambian President March 26, 2008
  2. ↑ Ousman Jammeh takes over Foreign Affairs - As Dr Touray relieved  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed October 2009@1@ 2Template: dead link / observer.gm  
predecessor Office successor
Crispin Gray-Johnson Foreign Minister of The Gambia
2008-2009 		Ousman Jammeh
personal data
SURNAME Touray, Omar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Touray, Omar Alieu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Gambia