Diplomatic Service
In 1979 Ouyahia joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was assigned to the African Affairs Department. In 1980 he was sent as an adviser for foreign affairs to the ambassador of Algeria in Côte d'Ivoire, where he served until 1982. In 1982 he was assigned as a foreign affairs advisor to the Head of the Permanent Mission of Algeria at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. In 1988 Ouyahia became the general director of the African Department of the Algerian Foreign Affairs Ministry. From 1988 to 1989 Ouyahia was co-representative to the United Nations Security Council. He was an adviser to the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1990 to 1991.
He led the African Department until 1991, when he was sent as Algeria's ambassador to Mali from 1992 to 1993. There he helped negotiate a 1992 peace deal in the Malian Tuareg Rebellion between the warring Malian government of Alpha Oumar Konaré and the Azawad Tuareg movement: the short lived "Pacte National" treaty. In August 1993, Ouyahia was called back to Algiers to serve in the government of Redha Malek as Under Secretary of State for African and Arab Affairs, Secretary of State for Cooperation and Maghreb Affairs.
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