Youssouf Bakayoko
Youssouf Bakayoko (born April 19, 1943 in Bouaké ) is a diplomat and politician from the Ivory Coast .
biography
After finishing school, he first studied at the University of Paris-Nanterre , which he graduated in 1969 with a license (License des lettres). He then entered the diplomatic service and completed postgraduate studies at the l'Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva and at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale (IHEDN) in Paris , from which he graduated in 1971 and 1972, respectively. After returning to the Ivory Coast, he first worked in the Department of Conferences and Negotiations at the Foreign Ministry, before becoming a diplomat at the permanent missions to the United Nations and international organizations in Geneva and at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization from 1973 to 1976 (ONUDI) was in Vienna . Between 1977 and 1979 he was a diplomat at the embassy in Switzerland and then until 1983 at the embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany .
In 1983 he was appointed ambassador and as such was director of the fund for the stabilization and support of prices for agricultural products (Caisse de Stabilization et de Soutien des Prix des Productions Agricoles) in Paris until 1990 . In 1990 he returned to his home country and was mayor ( Maire ) of Séguéla until 1995 .
In 1995 he was elected a member of the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale), of which he was a member until 2005. During this time he was Vice President between 1995 and 2000 and then President of the Foreign Affairs Committee until 2005. In the meantime, Bakayoko was from 1996 to 1997 President of the Board of Directors of the Ivorian Society for the Management of Railway Assets (Société Ivoirienne de gestion du Patrimoine Ferroviaire (SIPF)) in Abidjan .
On December 28, 2005, Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny appointed him Foreign Minister in his cabinet. He kept this office in the government formed by Guillaume Soro on March 29, 2007. In an interview in April 2008, he called for the UN to act more consistently to solve the problems of the divided country . He expressed this demand again in his speech to the 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations in September 2008.
Bakayoko belongs to the Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire - Rassemblement Démocratique Africain , chaired by Henri Konan Bédié, and is a member of the PDCI-RDA Politburo .
Bakayoko is President of the Ivory Coast Independent Electoral Commission (CEI).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview: Youssouf Bakayoko mise sur l'engagement de l'ONU pour la consolidation de la paix
- ^ UN General Assembly - 63rd Session General Debate - Cote d'Ivoire
- ↑ Klaus D. Loetzer, Anja Casper: Two presidents and no way out of the political crisis. In: Konrad Adenauer Foundation . December 22, 2010, accessed April 8, 2011 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bakayoko, Youssouf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ivorian politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bouaké |