Protecting and Empowering People

Lakhdar Brahimi

In October 2001, the United Nations Secretary-General appointed Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi as the United Nations Special Representative for Afghanistan. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Brahimi was the Special Envoy to the United Nations Secretary-General in Afghanistan. During this time, he chaired an independent panel established by the United Nations Secretary-General to review UN Peace Operations. The report produced in 2000, known as the "Brahimi Report," provided a coomprehensive analysis of peacekeeping activities and made specific recommendations on the United Nations's role in peacekeeping and post-conflict peace-building operations.

From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Brahimi served as the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and was the Under-Secretary-General of the League of Arab States from 1984 to 1991. During 1989 to 1991, Mr. Brahimi was appointed the Special Envoy of the Arab League Tripartite Committee to Lebanon and mediated the end of the civil war in that country.

Mr. Brahimi was Diplomatic Advisor to the President of Algeria from 1982 to 1984; Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Egypt and Sudan; as well as, the Permanent Representative to the Arab League in Cairo from 1963 to 1970.