Fathallah Sijilmassi Elected New Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean
Fathallah Sijilmassi, Director of the Moroccan investment promotion agency (AMDI), was unanimously elected, on Friday (10 February 2012) in Brussels, as Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). Sijilmassi succeeds to his countryman Youssef Amrani who was appointed in the current Moroccan government as Minister Delegate to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. He holds a PhD in economics, being Graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Grenoble, France. Nn 22 November 2004, he was appointed Morocco’s ambassador to France, a position he held until December 2008. Upon his return to Morocco, King Mohammed VI appointed him in July 2, 2009 Director of the Moroccan Agency for Investment Development. Previously, F. Sijilmassi was Ambassador, Head of Mission of Morocco to the European Communities. He was also ambassador of Morocco in charge of the Barcelona Process and the Mediterranean Dialogue of NATO. Within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, he was Director of Multilateral Cooperation (1999-2000) and Director of European Affairs (2001-2003). |
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Contact information |
UfM Secretariat: Palacio de Pedralbes Calle Fernando Primo de Rivera 11 08034 Barcelona Spain
(email: info@ufmsecretariat.org) Phone: +34 93 521 4100 ; Fax: +34 93 521 4102 |
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News type | Nomination |
File link |
http://moroccoworldnews.com/2012/02/fathallah-sijilmassi-elected-new-sg-of-the-union-for-the-mediterranean/26639 |
Source of information | Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean / Morocco World News with agencies |
Keyword(s) | UfM, Union for the Mediterranean |
Subject(s) | AGRICULTURE , ANALYSIS AND TESTS , CHARACTERISTICAL PARAMETERS OF WATERS AND SLUDGES , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , ENERGY , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INDUSTRY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , INFRASTRUCTURES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RIGHT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , SLUDGES , TOOL TERMS , TOURISM - SPORT - HOBBIES , WATER DEMAND , WATER QUALITY |
Relation | initiatives/mediterranean-union |
Geographical coverage | Belgium, Spain, Morocco |
News date | 10/02/2012 |
Working language(s) | FRENCH , ENGLISH |