SECRETARY-GENERAL'S REPRESENTATIVE FOR ANGOLA DIES IN PLANE CRASH
Press Release
SG/A/683*
BIO/3170*
SECRETARY-GENERAL'S REPRESENTATIVE FOR ANGOLA DIES IN PLANE CRASH
19980629 Biographical Note Alioune Blondin Beye, who was killed in an air crash near Abidjan on Friday (26 June), took up his duties as the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Angola on 28 June 1993.Mr. Beye had a distinguished diplomatic and political career. He served in the Government of Mali as Minister of Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture (1978), as Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (1978-1986) and as Legal Counsel to the President (1986-1988).
In 1988, he was appointed Secretary-General of the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and from 1991 he headed its Legal Department.
In addition, between 1971 and 1990, Mr. Beye was elected to various high offices at international conferences and intergovernmental bodies, including the Arbitral Court of the Economic Community of West Africa, the African Commission on Human Rights and Peoples, and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers.
As a scholar, Mr. Beye undertook research in international law, political science and international relations at Dijon University's Faculty of Law and also at the Center for Studies and Research on International Law and International Relations in The Hague, Netherlands.
Mr. Beye lectured on international public law at Dijon University (France) and was a professor at the National School of Administration in Bamako, Mali. A barrister registered with the Dijon Bar, he represented the interests of Mali before Malian courts (as chief of the Government's Legal Department).
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* This supersedes Press Release SG/A/545-BIO/2786 issued on 8 June 1993.