Ramtane Lamamra

At a joint press conference on 19 February in Algiers with his counterpart Ramtane Lamamra British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond argued 'We don't believe that military action can solve the problem in Libya ' adding 'the Algerian position and the British position are identical...

Usually President Abdelaziz Bouteflika shows little interest in Sub-Saharan diplomacy but for the first time he has a foreign minister with a real understanding of African issues and extensive contacts – Ramtane Lamamra the former African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security whom he appointed in September...

Foreign Affairs Minister Ramtane Lamamra has a formidable reputation as a diplomat and international civil servant with a sharp interest in the Sahara (AC Vol 54 No 19 Boutef's miracle return)...

The veteran Algerian diplomat Ramtane Lamamra the outgoing AU Peace & Security Commissioner and now Foreign Minister in Algeria left a legacy of hard-headed engagement with Africa's worsening security wrangles...

Another longstanding cohort of Bouteflika's Mourad Medelci leaves the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be replaced by a younger diplomat and international civil servant Ramtane Lamamra...

According to Ramtane Lamamra of the AU Peace and Security Commission the new money – 10% of which would be funnelled into a contingency fund – will be used to finance those projects that currently receive the least external support namely infrastructure and industrialisation...

’ He also suggested that the AU should revisit its founding charter and recast the roles of the chair of the AU Assembly (of Heads of State) chair of the AU Commission (Dlamini-Zuma’s current role) and the Commissioner for Peace and Security Algeria’s Ramtane Lamamra...

Her main collaborators here will be the Peace and Security Commissioner Algeria’s Ramtane Lamamra and his deputy Senegal’s El Ghassim Wane...

They sent a ‘Team of Experts’ on a fact-finding mission led by the AU Commissioner for Peace and Security Ambassador Ramtane Lamamra to Abidjan on 6-10 February but nothing has been heard from them or their political masters since...

The AU Peace and Security Commissioner Ambassador Ramtane Lamamra has been very active on the diplomatic circuit delivering his biannual briefing on Somalia to the AU’s Peace and Security Commission (PSC) in mid-October before going to the Security Council for two days of back-to-back meetings on Somalia and on UN support for Amisom...