What we need from these Europeans is to put an end to these networks, ... We accept any mission whose objective is to exchange views with Algerians in order to strengthen the fight against terrorism.
"Abdallah Baali" is an Algerian career diplomat.
Baali was born in Guelma, Algeria. After he graduated from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in 1977, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as a counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Algeria to the United Nations from 1982 to 1989. From 1989 to 1992, he served as the Adviser to the Minister and Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He has been the Ambassador of Algeria to Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Brunei Darussalam from 1992 to 1996, to the United Nations from 1996-2005 and to the United States of America since 2008.
He was Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations Security Council (2004–2005).
He was President of the United Nations Security Council during December 2004. He has led Algerian delegations to various international conferences and to conferences on disarmament and on the Non-Proliferation Treaty. He has chaired several UN bodies and was as well President of the 6th NPT Review Conference (New York, 2000).
He has published various articles pertaining to the 1996 Algerian Constitution, nuclear disarmament and the 2000 NPT Review Conference. He lectured in several American Universities.
Baali is married, with two children. He speaks Arabic, French, English, Spanish and Indonesian.
More Abdallah Baali on Wikipedia.I don't think the time has come to envisage any premature, any action or any kind of measures, what is expected from all concerned at this stage is to fully cooperate with the investigation.
In the past five years, Kofi Annan focused on Africa because the Africans had the impression the United Nations was not doing enough for them.
The United Nations has no role to play in Algeria, ... What is taking place in Algeria is something which we have to handle ourselves.
We have made it clear that it is premature and it is unjustified to talk about sanctions when the investigation is still going on and we do not know what will be the final outcome.
People were very cautious, to say the least, because of his reputation as a tough guy who didn't like the UN.
You cannot give all the powers to the secretary general. The General Assembly has to keep its main prerogative, and the secretary general and all bodies should be accountable to the General Assembly.
This test of the U.N. mission in Sierra Leone shows very clearly that the mandates and resources are not and never were appropriate to the situation.
On management reform, you have one side basically saying that the secretary general should be empowered and should have all flexibility as a kind of C.E.O. and the other side saying that it is not ready to give up the prerogative of the General Assembly and would like to keep a close eye on the work of the secretary general.
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