Former Special Adviser on Africa and High Representative for the Least Developed
Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing
States (OSAA/OHRLLS).
Mr. Cheick Sidi Diarra, former Special Adviser on Africa and High Representative for the Least Developed
Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing
States, has over 25 years of professional experience
in international relations – bilateral and multilateral, law and
development.
Mr. Diarra has been actively involved in furthering African integration
efforts and the African development agenda at the international level.
He has served as one of the lead negotiators on these issues at African
Union summits since 1982. From his decade-long experience dealing with
the United Nations, he acquired first-hand knowledge and experience
of multifaceted issues of the United Nations and its intergovernmental
processes in particular.
He made important contributions to the reform process of the United
Nations aimed at strengthening the Organization’s global role
in economic and development matters. In this context he was an active
player in the intergovernmental consultation process leading up to the
strengthening of ECOSOC and follow-up of the development aspects of
the 2005 World Summit, including the Millennium Development Goals. He
has been a dedicated advocate for the cause of Africa, the least developed
countries and landlocked developing countries.
Mr. Diarra obtained masters degrees in international public law and
international relations from Dakar University in Senegal. He is married
with two children.
Speeches by Ambassador Cheick
Sidi Diarra
Statement at the MEDays 2010 Forum, 11 November 2010 (French)
Statement at the briefing by Regional Economic Communities, 18 October 2010
Statement at the launch of the OSAA-NEPAD-OECD Partnership, 11 October 2010
Statement at the briefing to Member States on NEPAD, 11 October 2010
Statement at the launch of a report: “Africa’s cooperation with new and emerging development partners: Options for Africa’s development”, 20 September 2010
Africa Renewal interview with Mr. Cheick Sidi Diarra: "A lot of reasons to be optimistic" (August 2010)
Statement by Mr. Cheick Sidi Diarra at the 2010 Joint Annual Meeting of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance and the ECA Conference of Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Lilongwe, 29 March 2010
Africa faces up to global turmoil - interview with Mr. Cheick Sidi Diarra, the Special Adviser on Africa, April 2009 (Fr)
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