Omar Touray

Omar Alieu Touray ( born November 5, 1965 in Gambia) is a politician and diplomat from the West African nation of Gambia. He was foreign minister of the country.

Life

1987 reached Touray his Bachelor of Arts (Literature and Linguistics ) at Ain Shams University in Cairo. He then made ​​his Master of Social Sciences ( International Relations and International Law ) in 1990 at the University of Helsinki, followed Diplôme d' Études 1992 Supérieures ( Int'l. Relations, International Economics and International Law ) at the Graduate Institute of International Studies of the University Geneva. At the same university he received his doctorate in 1995 in the field of International Relations.

From September 1993 to December 1994 was Touray steward at the World Indigenous Organization, for the entertain the United Nations Office at Geneva. He then worked as a consultant for the International Labour Office in Geneva worked until July 1995 until he was offered a position in the Gambian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the first Secretary. There he worked from September 1995 for the Embassy in Belgium. The area of ​​responsibility extended to the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and the permanent representation to the European Union as well as representation at the World Trade Organization.

In April Touray was appointed as an ambassador of The Gambia in Ethiopia, where he held the additional duties as Permanent Representative to the African Union and the Economic Commission for Africa, United Nations Environment Programme and the High Commissioner for South Africa and Kenya. As of September 2007 he was permanent representative to the United Nations in New York.

On 19 March 2008 he was appointed to the cabinet and took Yahya Jammeh as the successor of Crispin Grey -Johnson a function of the Foreign Minister ( Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ) of the country. He was sworn in on 26 March 2008 in his office. On September 11, 2009, he gave his department to Ousman Jammeh.

Touray is married and has three children.

Works

  • The Gambia and the world: . A history of the foreign policy of Africa 's smallest state, 1965 - 1995 Institute of African Affairs, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-928049-66-6
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