François Lonseny Fall

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François Lonseny Fall (born 1949) was the prime minister of Guinea from February 23, 2004, until April 30, 2004. He was the foreign minister of that country from June 10, 2002 until February 23, 2004, when he became prime minister. As foreign minister, he was Guinea's delegate to the United Nations security council during the debate over the United States military action in Iraq. On April 30, 2004, Francois Fall resigned, saying that the country's president would not let him attempt to fix the economy. He was not replaced as prime minister until December 2004, and until June 2004 there was in fact some dispute as to whether he had actually left office formally.

In March 2005, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Fall to be his Special Representative for Somalia. In that capacity, Fall also assumed charge of the UN's Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS), located in Nairobi, Kenya. From the date of his appointment through mid-2005, Fall's principal task has been to persuade and assist rival Somali political leaders to lay down their weapons, resolve their differences, and restore national government to a country that has had none since 1992.