Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, National Community Abroad and African Affairs
Last Name : ATTAF
First Name : Ahmed
Date and place of birth: July 10, 1953 in Ain Defla
Marital status: Married, three children
Working languages: Arabic, French, English
- Diplomas :
1980 : English Language Proficiency Diploma, Hunter College, New York.
1977 : Diploma of high studies in Political Science, University of Algiers.
1975 : National School of Administration.
- Diplomacy Career :
2001-2004 : Ambassador of Algeria to the United Kingdom
1996-1999 : Minister of Foreign Affairs
1994-1996 : Spokesperson of the Government
1994-1996 : Secretary of State for Cooperation and Maghreb Affairs
1992-1994 : Ambassador of Algeria to India
1989-1991 : Ambassador of Algeria to Yugoslavia
1984-1989 : Director of International Political Affairs
1983-1984 : United Nations expert on nuclear weapon free zones
Member of the Group of Experts on Regional Conventional Disarmament
1982-1984: Deputy Director of Strategic Affairs and Disarmament-MFA
1979-1982 : Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Algeria to the United Nations in New York, in charge of the 2nd Committee: economic and financial issues.
1977-1979 : Head of the Political Affairs Division of the Organization of African Unity -MFA-
1977: Head of the Multilateral Treaties Division -MFA-.
- Participation in the diplomatic representation activities of Algeria:
1989: Member of the Committee of Six and the Tripartite Committee on the Lebanese crisis (Taif Agreement).
1981-1985: Member of the delegations accompanying President Chadli during his State visits to Washington (1985), Paris (1982) and Moscow (1981).
1979-1989 : Member of the Algerian delegations to the Councils of Ministers and Summits of Heads of State of international and regional organizations including:
- The Organization of African Unity,
- The League of Arab States,
- The Organization of the Islamic Conference,
- The Non-Aligned Movement,
- The Arab Maghreb Union (including the preparatory meetings for the constitution of the UMA),
- The G77 and the G15.
1981: Spokesperson of the G77 at the Caracas meeting on South-South cooperation.
- Political career :
2014-2017 : Secretary General of the Political Office of "Talaie El Houriyet" party.
1997 : President of the parliamentary group of the National Democratic Movement (RND) in the National Popular Assembly (APN).
1997 : RND deputy during the first pluralistic mandate of the APN.
1997-2008: Member of the RND Central Committee.
- Academic career:
2009-2013: Associate Professor at the National Superior School of Political Sciences of Algiers.
1977-1978 : Assistant in constitutional law at the ENA.
- Publications :
1998: Integrism, a counter-culture in Algeria: Interviews with Bachir Boumaaza, Ahmed Attaf and Abdelkader Tafar, Editions L'Harmattan