Lakhdar Brahimi

But it may fail just as an early effort to broker a national unity agreement involving the Deputy Prime Minister Ramtane Lamamra and veteran UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi – who few would deny are two of Algeria's most respected diplomats – quickly came to nothing...

The proposals are believed to be the work of two members of the inner circle both former foreign ministers: 85-year-old Lakhdar Brahimi who served as the UN's mediator in Syria between 2012 and 2014 and Ramtane Lamamra 66 who has now returned as foreign minister as well as taking on the newly created post of deputy premier (AC Vol 57 No 22 How to win friends and Vol 60 No 3 Diplomatic differences)...

Efforts by a handful of senior Algerians (including long-serving UN bigwig Lakhdar Brahimi) and Moroccans (notably former socialist Premier Abderrahmane el Youssoufi) to engineer an enduring rapprochement between the feuding neighbours have yet to deliver results...

As Konaré was leaving London veteran UN negotiator Lakhdar Brahimi and head of Peacekeeping Operations Hedi Annabi were talking to the Sudanese regime about the UN assessment team whose visas it had blocked...

There are also security issues on the G8 summit agenda: reform of the UN's peacekeeping operations (following the recommendations of Lakhdar Brahimi's report); a code of conduct for companies operating in war zones; backing for the International Criminal Court (opposed by the USA and several African states); and a crackdown on the trade in small arms in Africa (awkward for Britain whose arms sales to Africa have quadrupled to more than £200 million a year since 1999 according to the British-based Campaign against the Arms Trade)...

President Benjamin Mkapa opened the seminar; others present were Salim Ahmed Salim Secretary General of the Organisation of African Unity Dmitry Titov Africa Director in the United Nations's peace-keeping department and Lakhdar Brahimi the Algerian diplomat commissioned by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to write last year's critical report on peace-keeping reform...

In almost every way the UN's Sierra Leone operations exemplify the problems identified in a damning critique of peacekeeping by the UN Under-Secretary General for Special Assignments Lakhdar Brahimi of Algeria as 'too slow too tied up in red tape too weak or too fragmented to deal effectively with conflicts...

The 4 August visit to Luanda of Algeria's former Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi as temporary United Nations special envoy to Angola was a last-ditch attempt to rescue the Lusaka protocol and assess whether the UN should maintain its presence in Angola...