Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah
أحمدو ولد عبد الله
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa
In office
2003–2007
Succeeded byLamine Cissé
Personal details
Born (1940-11-21) 21 November 1940 (age 83)
Nationality
University of Grenoble
University of Paris

Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah (

Arabic: أحمدو ولد عبد الله) (born November 21, 1940) is a Mauritanian diplomat who was a senior United Nations
official.

Background

Ould-Abdallah was born on November 21, 1940, in

University of Grenoble and the University of Paris and political science at the Sorbonne
.

Career

Ambassador for Mauritania

From 1968 to 1985 he held several

United States. Moreover, he was Chief Executive Officer at the Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière de Mauritanie,[1]
the largest mining company and cooperation in Mauritania.

UN Special Representative

Between 1985 and 1993, Ould-Abdallah worked as adviser on energy, including renewable energies and African issues, to the United Nations Secretary-General. From 1993 to 1995, he was

United Nations Office for West Africa.[2]

From 2003 to 2007, Ould-Abdallah was jointly Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and Chairman of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission. He was successful in supporting the peaceful settlement of the land and maritime border dispute between the two countries [3]

In 2006, the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan sent him on a short-term mission as Special Envoy to Sudan to clarify the agreement with the Sudanese Government on the proposed UN-AU joint peacekeeping force.[4]

Ould-Abdallah has also been active in the work of

ICRC, and Search for Common Ground. He is a co-founder and a member of the Advisory Board of Transparency International. He is member of the International Advisory Board of the African Press Organization (APO), as well as serving on the Board of Advisors of the International Peace and Security Institute (IPSI).[6]
He served on the Board of Directors of Search for Common Ground from 1997 to 2004, is a current member since 2011.

Somalia

From September 2007 until July 2010, Ould-Abdallah served as Special Representative for the UN Secretary-General for

Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia (ARS) based in Asmara, Eritrea
.

He successfully negotiated the agreement between the two parties. This agreement is known as the Djibouti Agreement

Arab league, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and France were co-signatures to the agreement. Mr. Ould-Abdallah established the well acclaimed steering committee on Somalia, composed of the United Nations, African Union and Intergovernmental Authority on Development
.

In July 2010, after the longest term in Somalia of any United Nations Special Representative, Ould-Abdallah announced his retirement from the United Nations in a farewell letter to the

Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat
in November 2010 for his de-briefing.

Ouid-Abdallah is on the Board of Advisors for the International Peace and Security Institute

Books

Awards

Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, Mauritanie Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur, France Officier de l’Ordre du Lion, Sénégal Officier de l’Ordre Léopold II, Belgium Knight Golden Lion Order of the House of Nassau, Luxemburg

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Home". snim.fr.
  2. ^ "SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS AHMEDOU OULD-ABDALLAH AS HIS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR WEST AFRICA" (Press release). United Nations. 23 July 2002. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
  3. ^ "Cameroon/Nigeria Mixed Commission". Archived from the original on 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2012-10-25.
  4. ^ "TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, 19 DECEMBER 2006" (Press release). United Nations. 19 December 2006. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
  5. ^ World Future Council: Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah biography Archived 2008-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "IPSI » About". ipsinstitute.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-16.
  7. ^ "SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS AHMEDOU OULD-ABDALLAH OF MAURITANIA AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR SOMALIA" (Press release). United Nations. 12 September 2007. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
  8. ^ "SECURITY COUNCIL, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT, WELCOMES SIGNING OF DJIBOUTI AGREEMENT ON RECONCILIATION BY PARTIES TO SOMALIA CONFLICT, 4 September 2008" (Press release).
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ahmedou_Ould-Abdallah&oldid=1105808531"