{"id":30849,"date":"2025-01-27T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mofa-ye.org\/Pages\/?page_id=30849"},"modified":"2025-03-02T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T10:55:00","slug":"vice-minister-of-foreign-affairs-and-expatriates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mofa-ye.org\/Pages\/vice-minister-of-foreign-affairs-and-expatriates\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-30702 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mofa-ye.org\/Pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mustafa_Noaman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mofa-ye.org\/Pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mustafa_Noaman.jpg 709w, https:\/\/www.mofa-ye.org\/Pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mustafa_Noaman-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>His Excellency, <\/strong><strong>Mustapha Ahmed Mohamed Noman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PERSONAL INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Born: January 21, 1956<\/li>\n<li>Official Title: Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Language: Arabic-English-French<\/li>\n<li>Marital status: Married<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>QUALIFICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1982 &#8211; B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Cairo University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CAREER PORTFOLIO<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Graduated from the Faculty of Engineering &#8211; Cairo University in 1982<\/li>\n<li>Worked in the private sector as a civil engineer until he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1988.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Headed the first non-governmental organization to monitor the first parliamentary elections in the unified state in 1993 (the Yemeni Committee for Free and Fair Elections).<\/li>\n<li>Elected as a member of the Executive Office of the Yemeni Organization for the Defense of Rights and Freedoms, headquartered in Aden.<\/li>\n<li>Participated in preparing a field report on preparations for the parliamentary elections in Jordan, September 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Appointed as the first head of the diplomatic mission of Yemen in South Africa in 1996.<\/li>\n<li>Appointed as Ambassador to Bahrain in 1996.<\/li>\n<li>Worked on behalf of the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh to reopen the Yemeni-Saudi border file (1995-1999).<\/li>\n<li>Appointed as Ambassador to Canada 1999 to 2003<\/li>\n<li>Appointed as Ambassador to India and Non-Resident to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka 2006-2010<\/li>\n<li>Appointed as Ambassador to Spain from 2010 to 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WORK EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Founder of the First NGO to monitor the Parliamentary Elections in Yemen 1992-1993<\/li>\n<li>Joined the Diplomatic Service in 1988<\/li>\n<li>Appointed Under Secretary of State for the Americas, Europe and International Organizations in 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Chaired the National Committee for Refugee Affairs and the National Committee for the Prevention of the Proliferation of Chemical Weapons.<\/li>\n<li>Headed the National Committee for Preventing the Financing of Terrorist Groups and Tracking Their Sources.<\/li>\n<li>Headed the Yemeni delegation to the Non-Aligned Movement Ministerial Meeting held in Durban, South Africa in August 2004 and was elected Vice-President of the Conference, representing the Asian Group.<\/li>\n<li>Headed the Yemeni delegation to the 77th meetings in Marrakesh, Morocco, and was elected Chairman of the Asian Group.<\/li>\n<li>Headed the Yemeni delegation to the World Economic Forum (Davos) meetings in May 2004.<\/li>\n<li>Participated in the first Gulf Security Meeting in May 2004.<\/li>\n<li>Headed the Yemeni delegation to the meetings of the Conference of Democratic Societies in Santiago, Chile, in April 2005.<\/li>\n<li>participated in the first summit between the Arab world and South America in Brasilia in May 2005.<\/li>\n<li>Appointed as a member of the Consultation and Reconciliation Commission in April 2022<\/li>\n<li>Appointed as Advisor to the Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council in September 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>REGIONAL &amp; INTERNATIONAL POSTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1982-1988 Worked in private sector.<\/li>\n<li>1988-1990 First Secretary at the Yemen Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a01990-1992 First Secretary at the Foreign Ministry in Sana\u2019a.<\/li>\n<li>1992-1993 Chaired the first NGO to monitor the Parliamentary elections in Yemen.<\/li>\n<li>Sep. 1993: Participated in assessing the Parliamentary elections in Jordan with the National Democratic Institute (NDI).<\/li>\n<li>1993 \u2013 1996: Minister Plenipotentiary at the Foreign Ministry in Sana\u2019a.<\/li>\n<li>Jan. 1996 \u2013 June 1996: Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;affaires to South Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Sep. 1996 \u2013 July 1999: Ambassador to Bahrain.<\/li>\n<li>August 1999 \u2013 Nov. 2003: Ambassador to Canada.<\/li>\n<li>Nov. 2003 \u2013 Present: Deputy Foreign Minister (Europe, Americas, and Int\u2019l Organizations).<\/li>\n<li>Participated in numerous international conferences.<\/li>\n<li>Wrote extensively about the importance of need of political reform in the Muslim World. 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