13 Facts About Ahmed Attaf

Ahmed Attaf is an Algerian politician and diplomat.

Ahmed Attaf is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs and the National Community Abroad since March 18,2023, after having held the position from early 1996 to late 1999.

Ahmed Attaf was then sent to Washington to head the economic section at the Algerian Embassy in the United States and later became the head of the Multilateral Treaties Division.

Ahmed Attaf subsequently held important positions, such as Chief of the Political Affairs Division of the Organization of African Unity from 1977 to 1979, Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Algeria to the United Nations from 1979 to 1982, Deputy Director of Strategic Affairs and Disarmament at the United Nations in 1982, and Director of International Political Affairs at the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1984.

Ahmed Attaf was one of the close collaborators of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi, alongside Ramtane Lamamra.

In March 1994, Ahmed Attaf was appointed Secretary of State for Cooperation and Maghreb Affairs, and later designated as the government spokesperson starting from October 1994.

In 1995, Ahmed Attaf described the Sant'Egidio Platform as a "non-event" in the context of the civil war of the 1990s in Algeria.

In January 1996, Ahmed Attaf became Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria, a position he held during the "black decade" until 1999.

Ahmed Attaf was the President of the RND parliamentary group in the National People's Assembly and again the leading candidate in the Algerian legislative elections of 2002 in Ain Defla.

Ahmed Attaf left the party at the end of the same year, following Benflis' withdrawal from the political scene after his electoral defeat.

On 16 March 2023 Ahmed Attaf was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad in the Benabderrahmane government during a ministerial reshuffle, succeeding Ramtane Lamamra.

Ahmed Attaf assumed his role as minister on March 18,2023.

On 4 May 2023, Attaf was chosen by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to represent him at the enthronement ceremony of King Charles III in England.