Abdel Rahman Shalgham

Abdel Rahman Shalgham

Abdel Rahman Shalgam (Arabic: عبد الرحمن شلقم) (born 1949) is a Libyan politician. He was Foreign Minister of Libya from 2000 to 2009.

From 1984 to 1995, before taking the office of Foreign Minister, Abdel Rahman Shalgham was Secretary (Ambassador) of Libya's People's Bureau (Libyan Embassy) to Rome, Italy.

From 1998 to 2000 he was appointed Secretary of Foreign Affairs at the Secretariat of the General People's Congress of Libya.

During Shalgham's tenure of office, a relative thaw in US-Libyan relations came about, with high-level contacts being maintained between Libya and the State Department.

Shalgham was replaced as Foreign Minister by Moussa Koussa on 4 March 2009 and was instead appointed as Libya's representative at the United Nations Security Council, where Libya had a non-permanent seat until 31 December 2009. He remains Libya's ambassador to the UN as of early 2011.