Sudan’s new U.N. ambassador assumes office
August 15, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has received the new Sudanese ambassador to the world body Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman who presented his credentials.
Sudan’s official news agency (SUNA) said that Osman conveyed to Ban the best wishes and appreciation of President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir for what the UN is carrying out in Sudan through its two missions operating in preserving peace in southern Sudan and Darfur and its agencies working in the various parts of the country.
He affirmed that his most important mandate is to strengthen the relationship between Sudan and the UN adding that this comes in line with the principles of the UN Charter that underscores the sovereignty of states over their territories and the neutrality of the international employees.
The UN Secretary General was quoted as conveying his greetings to president Bashir and his willingness to fully cooperate with the Sudanese envoy to make his mission succeed.
According to the UN Protocol and Liaison Service, Osman was Sudan’s ambassador to both Pakistan and Bangladesh, after having served as the Director of the International Organizations Department at the Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from 2001 to 2004. He was Second Deputy of the Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1996 to 2000.
He first joined the Sudan’s Foreign Ministry in 1980 as Third Secretary, progressing to Second Secretary as the Assistant Director of the Arab Department before moving at that level to the embassy in Bangui, Central African Republic, in 1983.
In 1986, he became First Secretary in the Sudan’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva, returning to Khartoum in 1989 to serve in the Executive Office of the Foreign Ministry.
Assigned to open the Sudan’s first embassy in the Republic of Korea, he was Counsellor in Seoul from 1990-1992, then simultaneously Consul-General in Alexandria and Counsellor at the embassy in Cairo, Egypt, until 1994, when he began his first tenure at the Department of International Organizations in Khartoum, serving as Minister Plenipotentiary.
Osman received a Master of Science in international relations from Preston University in Islamabad in 2008. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in French and Archaeology and a post-graduate diploma in translation from the University of Khartoum.
Born in Sinja, Sudan, in 1955, he is married with two daughters.
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Thondet Manyang
Sudan’s new U.N. ambassador assumes office
This rediculous that the Bashir is filling in all the gaps from each and ever corner of the world in order to maintain his position and also not to be taken to ICC. We are almost reaching to the end hoping to have our Southern ambassador to UN. This moves indicates that no equality in leadership Bashir why not one of Sothern Sudanese to take this post. What Bashir knows is that Daffa-Alla was his supportor during coup plot 1989. God free us from Arab!!!!!