Arvin Boolell

Arvin Boolell ( born May 26, 1953) is a politician from Mauritius.

Biography

Arvin Boolell is the son of Sir Satcam Boolell and cousin Anil Gayan, who were both also foreign minister of Mauritius. After schooling, he studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons of the National University of Ireland and acquired there the only in Ireland conferred Bachelor of Obstetrics ( BAO ) and the internationally recognized Bachelor of Medicine ( MB) and Bachelor of Surgery ( B.Ch. ). After graduating, he worked as a surgeon in Wales and New Zealand.

His political career began in 1987, when he became the candidate of the Workers' Party of Mauritius ( PTr ) was first elected a deputy of the National Assembly, in which he represented the constituency of 11 Rose Belle / Vieux Grand Port. In the elections of 1991, 1995, 2000 and 2005, he was in this constituency ( Constituency) each re-elected. In December 1995 he was appointed by Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam as minister of agriculture and natural resources for the first time in a government and belonged to the cabinet until the end of Ramgoolams tenure in September 2000.

After the electoral victory of the existing of the MLP, the Mauri -tion Party of Xaiver -Luc Duval, and several smaller parties, electoral alliance "Social Alliance", he was appointed to the government in July 2005 by Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam as Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries again. In this office he was also spokesman for the group of the sugar -producing countries in the ACP countries and sat in this position for a perception and strengthen the interests of the group and in the European Union. On the other hand, he sat down for a one stop illegal fishing in order to strengthen the local economy.

In a cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed on 13 September 2008 Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade. In this capacity he was in August 2009 Chairman of the meeting of a common private - public committees (Joint Public-Private Sector Committee ), which is the trade in the region and cooperation within the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa ( COMESA) and the Southern African Development Community ( SADC ) dealt.