Faouzia Mebarki (born June 7, 1959) is the

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

n ambassador to Austria and Slovakia. She was appointed in 2016 and she is based in Vienna where she represents Algeria at the other international organisations (UNODC, UNIDO, CTBT, IAEA, OPEC, OFID, OSCE…) that are based in that city.

Biography

Mebarki was born in

Annaba Annaba (), formerly known as Bon, Bona and Bône, is a seaport city in the northeastern corner of Algeria, close to the border with Tunisia. Annaba is near the small Seybouse River and is in the Annaba Province. With a population of about 263,65 ...

in 1959. In 1977 she gained a Baccalaureate in her home city at the Saint Augustine Secondary School. Three years later she left the in Hydra after taking Diplomatic Studies. Mebarki joined the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and she went to work in the head office for central Europe. In 2001 she was promoted to be a deputy director looking after "Social and Cultural Affairs" and then information and analysis. In 2003 Mebarki went to Caracas where she studied ceremonial studies at the Pedro Gual Institute of Diplomatic Studies. In 2010 she was in Belgium at the Algerian Embassy in Brussels where she was responsible for diplomatic relations with the European parliament. Mebarki was appointed to be the Algerian Ambassador Extraordinary and

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to Austria and Slovakia on 24 May 2006. In 2016 she presented her credentials as Algeria's representative to the United Nations to the Director General Yury Fedotov in Vienna. Mebarji sat as Algeria's representative at the

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in 2020. Mebarji chaired the 55th session of the

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(CTBTO) in December 2020.

Private life

Mebarki is married to Ahmed Mebarki and they have a son.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mebarki, Faouzia 1959 births Living people People from Annaba Algerian women ambassadors Ambassadors of Algeria to Austria Ambassadors of Algeria to Slovakia 21st-century Algerian people