Burkina Faso Heading International Bodies and Mediations
The ECOWAS Mediator with the Executive Secretary
of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty
Organization (CTBO), in 2014
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Chairman
Blaise Compaoré
(1990-1991)
West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU/UEMOA)
WAEMU’s first Chairman
Blaise Compaoré
1997-1998
Organisation of African Unity (O.U.A.)
Chairman
Blaise Compaoré
1998-1999
World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Deputy Director general
Ablassé Ouédraogo – first African nominated for this post
1999-2002
ECOWAS Mediator in Togo
Blaise Compaoré
2005-2006
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Chairman
Blaise Compaoré
2007-2008
Joint U.N., U.A. and ECOWAS Mediator in Côte d’Ivoire
Blaise Compaoré
2007-2010
Joint–United Nations Chief Mediator for Darfur
Djibril Bassolé
2008 -2011
West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU/UEMOA)
Chairman
Blaise Compaoré
2007-2008
2008-2009
ECOWAS Mediator for Guinea
Blaise Compaoré
2009
International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT)
Chairman
Blaise Compaoré
2011-2014
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Director of theTelecommunication Development Bureau
Brahima Sanou
2011-2014
2014-2018
ECOWAS Mediator for Mali
Blaise Compaoré
2012-2014
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
President of the ECOWAS Commission
Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo
2012-2016
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organisation (CTBTO)
Executive Secretary
Lassina Zerbo
2013-2016
2016- 2021