Abdou Salam Diallo is the Ambassador of Senegal to the United Nations. 

Prior to his appointment, Diallo served as Ambassador and Diplomatic Counsellor to the Prime Minister; a position he had held since 2002. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Deputy Director of International Organizations in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He was a Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of Senegal in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia from 1992 to 1998, and as Chief of the United Nations Division in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, from 1990 to 1992.

Diallo has represented the Senegalese Government at various international forums, including the United Nations General Assembly, from 1999 to 2009. He was a member of the Senegalese delegation to several sessions of the Human Rights Commission and the 2002 session of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

In the area of disarmament, Mr. Diallo served as his delegation’s Rapporteur for the first three Conferences of Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, in Maputo, Mozambique (1999); Geneva, Switzerland (2000); and Managua, Nicaragua (2001).

Diallo has also represented the Government of Senegal at conferences of the African Union, Economic Commission for Africa, and United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), as well as at the twelfth (2005) and thirteenth (2006) Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, held in Kingston, Jamaica.

Diallo completed his studies at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration et de Magistrature in 1989. He received a Masters degree in law, with a focus on public law, from Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal in 1987.

He was born in Koungheul, Senegal on August 19, 1963, is married and has two children. 

Contact Information

Permanent Mission of the Republic of Senegal to the United Nations
238 East 68th St.
New York, NY 10065

Phone: (212) 517-9030, -9031, -9032
Fax: (212) 517-3032

Email: senegal.mission@yahoo.fr
Website: http://www.un.int/wcm/content/site/senegal