The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and African Integration of the Government of Niger (var. Foreign Ministry) is the government authority responsible for the Foreign relations of Niger and its diplomatic corps abroad. The Foreign Ministry is headed by the Minister of State for the Foreign Affairs, a political appointment who sits in the Council of Ministers of Niger, reporting directly to the President of Niger. The reference to "African Integration" speaks to the Minister's role in the African Union and its long professed Pan-African project on continental integration. The current Minister is Aïchatou Mindaoudou Souleymane, who served from 16 April 1999 to 5 January 2000, and again from 17 September 2001.
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Overseen by the Minister and her office, is the "General Secretariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs". Offices below this are the Directorate of Bilateral African Cooperation, which oversees the Diplomatic missions of Niger in Africa, the Directorate Europe, for embassies to and relations with European governments, and the Directorate America, Asia and Oceania, for those governments. Multilateral contacts with the African Union and other African bodies are overseen by the Directorate of African Union and Integration, while the Directorate of United Nations and International Organisations oversees missions to the United Nations (and Niger's Consulate in New York) and other bodies (such as Unesco). [1]
Below is the list of all Foreign Ministry chiefs (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Niger):[2]
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