SIPRI Appoints Ramtane Lamamra As A Member Of Its Governing Board

The name of the former Foreign Minister, Ramtane Lamamra, has returned to the forefront, to assume a specific responsibility, after the setback he suffered a few days ago, after the failure of the project to appoint him as a special envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General to Libya.

Lamamra was appointed as a member of governing board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) in Sweden, and he said, commenting on the decision to appoint him: “Today SIPRI team is facing a major challenge, more than ever, which requires upgrading a common view for a security and humanitarian program. SIPRI is ready and equipped to contribute to this mission”.

Lamamra expressed his pride in being part of the SIPRI team: “I am honoured and delighted to be part of this team”.

For his part, former Swedish Ambassador Jan Eliasson, Chair of the SIPRI Governing Board, in turn, welcomed Lamamra’s appointment and considered it an honour to the Institute: “We are very happy that Lamamra joined SIPRI team. He will bring deep knowledge and expertise to the Institute because of the long years spent in peace and security issues, especially in matters related to mediation and conflict prevention”.

Lamamra is the only of the eight members of the SIPRI Governing Board in the Arab Maghreb, the Middle East and Africa, knowing that this working group consists of diplomats, experts and university researchers, which makes this appointment special in term of importance.

SIPRI’s Governing Board consists of the famous Swedish diplomat, Jan Eliasson, the Russian doctor Vladimir Baranovsky, Espen Barth Eide from Norway, the French Jean Marie Guéhenno, Dr Radha Kumar from India, Dr Patricia Lewis from Northern Ireland and Dr Jessica Tuchman Mathews from the United States of America.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute specializes in strategic decisions related to the Peace Research Program, activities, organization and management, and is used to prepare and publish reports on the arms race in the world.

Previously, Ramtane Lamamra had lived on the backdrop of a setback to the failure of the project to appoint him a UN envoy to Libya, due to the intervention of Arab countries with agendas in Libya, with the United States of America to raise the veto in the face of Lamamra, a failure described by the adviser to the presidency and its spokesperson, Mohamed Said, as a failure of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, and not to Algeria, which is proud to choose Lamamra for an international mission.