Ahmad Allam-Mi is a Chadian diplomat. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs and African Integration

Foreign minister

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 of Chad

Chad

Chad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west...

 from 2005 to 2008, and he has served as Chad's Permanent Representative to the United Nations

United Nations

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 since 2008.

Diplomatic career

Allam-Mi's first diplomatic post was as First Counsellor at the Chadian Embassy in Tripoli

Tripoli

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, Libya

Libya

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 from 1975 to 1976. Subsequently he was the attaché

Attaché

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of the Cabinet to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before being posted to the Chadian Embassy in Paris

Paris

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 as First Counsellor from 1978 to 1979 and then Chargé d'affaires

Chargé d'affaires

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at the same embassy from 1979 to 1980. He was then was promoted to the position of Ambassador of Chad to France

France

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, Spain

Spain

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, and UNESCO

UNESCO

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, serving in that post during the 1980s; he was additionally accredited as Ambassador to Morocco

Morocco

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 and the Vatican City

Vatican City

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 from 1983 to 1991. Back in Chad, he was briefly Adviser to the Presidency of the Republic in charge of International Relations before serving as Ambassador to France, Switzerland, Spain, and UNESCO for a second time from 1992 to 1994. He was Director-General of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation from 1997 to 2002, then Technical Adviser to the Presidency from 2002 to 2004 and Special Adviser to President Idriss Déby

Idriss Déby

General Idriss Déby Itno is the President of Chad and the head of the Patriotic Salvation Movement. Déby is of the Bidyat clan of the Zaghawa ethnic group. He added "Itno" to his surname in January 2006.-Rise to power:...

 from 2004 to 2005.

When Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji

Pascal Yoadimnadji

Pascal Yoadimnadji served as the Prime Minister of Chad from February 2005 to February 2007.-Biography:Yoadimnadji was born in Béboto in the Logone Oriental Region of southern Chad...

 reshuffled the government

Government of Chad

The Government of Chad has been ruled and controlled by Idriss Déby and his Patriotic Salvation Movement since December 2, 1990, and officially since February 28, 1991. An amendment to the Constitution of Chad, passed in 2005, allowed Déby to run for his next term which will be his third...

 on 7 August 2005, Allam-Mi was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs and African Integration.

Allam-Mi told the United Nations General Assembly

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 on 22 September 2006 that "the continuing armed conflict and humanitarian crisis engulfing Sudan

Sudan

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's Darfur

Darfur

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 region threaten the security of the entire region." Allam-Mi said Chad has had to house over 300,000 refugees since the Darfur crisis began and at least 50,000 Chadians have been displaced and hundreds have died. Allam-Mi called on the United Nations

United Nations

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 to take over peacekeeping operations as approved in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1706

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1706

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1706, adopted on August 31, 2006, after recalling previous resolutions on the situation in Sudan, including resolutions 1556 , 1564 , 1574 , 1590 , 1591 , 1593 , 1663 , 1665 and 1679 , the Council expanded the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the...

, and that the deployment of peacekeepers would not violate Sudan's sovereignty

Sovereignty

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.

On 6 August 2006, Allam-Mi attended the meeting in Beijing

Beijing

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, People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

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, where Chad and China formally re-established diplomatic ties. The two countries had initiated relations in 1972, but the PRC broke them off in 1997 when Chad established ties with the Republic of China

Republic of China

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.

In the government of Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas

Youssouf Saleh Abbas

Youssouf Saleh Abbas is a Chadian political figure who was Prime Minister of Chad from April 2008 to March 2010. He was previously a diplomatic adviser and special representative of President Idriss Déby.-Political career:...

, which was announced on 23 April 2008, Allam-Mi lost his post as Minister of Foreign Affairs, being replaced by Moussa Faki

Moussa Faki

Moussa Faki Mahamat is a Chadian political figure. He was the Prime Minister of Chad from June 24, 2003 until February 4, 2005, and is a member of the Patriotic Salvation Movement. He is part of the Zaghawa ethnic group, the same group as President Idriss Déby...

. He was then appointed as Chad's Permanent Representative to the United Nations

United Nations

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, presenting his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 8 September 2008.