The Washington Diplomat

Algeria
His Excellency Abdallah Baali

Abdallah Baali became ambassador of Algeria to the United States on Nov. 5, 2008.

From 2006 to 2008, Ambassador Baali previously served as ambassador advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, special envoy to African and Latin American states, head of delegation at various international conferences, and head of delegation to Morocco for the Saharawi negotiations on the Western Sahara. Prior to that, he was Algeria’s permanent representative to the United Nations in New York from 1996-2005 — including permanent representative (2004-05) and president (December 2004) of the U.N. Security Council — as well as Algeria’s ambassador to Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Brunei Darussalam from 1992 to 1996. He also served as a member of the Algerian Permanent Mission to the United Nations on a prior occasion, from 1982 to 1989. During his time at the United Nations, Ambassador Baali was president of the 6th Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, vice president of the 54th and 59th sessions of the U.N. General Assembly, special envoy to Central and Latin America, and a member of the Monterrey Strategy Group on Nonproliferation.

In addition, he served as head of the Information and Documentation Division and spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1990-92), head of the Political Affairs Division (1977-82), and advisor to the minister for Arab Maghreb and European affairs (1989-90). Ambassador Baali has also been a lecturer at institutions such as Yale, Princeton and Fordham universities, as well as the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Le Centre d’Etudes Diplomatiques et Stratégiques in Paris, L’Institut Diplomatique et de Relations Internationales in Algiers, and various disarmament institutes (Monterrey, Tokyo, Albuquerque, Hiroshima).

Ambassador Baali holds a diploma from the Diplomatic Section of the National School of Administration in Algiers and a diploma in contemporary American politics from New York University.

He speaks Arabic, French, English and Spanish, and is married with two children.

Embassy
of Algeria
2118 Kalorama Rd. NW
Washington, DC 20008

Tel: (202) 265-2800
Fax: (202) 667-2174