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Sharif Ghalib is the first Afghan diplomat to represent Afghanistan in Canada.

Mr. Ghalib was appointed by the Interim Administration headed by Hamid Karzai as Afghanistan’s only representative and chief negotiator on the establishment of full bilateral diplomatic and consular relations between Afghanistan and Canada at resident-embassy level in April 2002.

The Embassy of Afghanistan was officially inaugurated on 29 October 2002 in Ottawa where Mr. Ghalib served as the first Charge d’Affaires, a.i., and later Minister Counsellor for the next three years.

Sharif Ghalib joined the Afghan Foreign Service in 2004 and his diplomatic career started at the United Nations. He served for three consecutive terms of office at the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations as Second Secretary, First Second Secretary and Counsellor from 1994 to 2002.

Sharif Ghalib has been a member of UNGA drafting committee of the annual resolutions on Afghanistan until 2001.

During his tenures, Mr. Ghalib has represented Afghanistan in numerous bilateral, regional and international summits, conferences, meetings and forums as delegate, including the 50th UN Commemorative Meeting, the UN Millennium Summit, NAM Summit (Durban-South Africa), NAM Ministerial Conference (Cartagena-Colombia), FAO Summit (Rome-Italy), OIC Summit (Tehran-Iran), OIC Ministerial Conference (New York), ECO Ministerial Conference (Baku-Azerbaijan), G-77 Conference (Havana-Cuba), successive intra-Afghan gatherings (London-UK), WTO Ministerial Meeting (New York), and ICAO Ministerial Conference (Montreal-Canada), as well as seven UNGA regular sessions in New York.

In 1996 Sharif Ghalib was a participant in the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan in Washington, DC.

He was also part of the UN-sponsored arrangements for transition to the post-Bonn Interim Authority in Afghanistan in 2001.

Sharif Ghalib came to the United States under a USIA internship and exchange program in 1990, where he established and hosted ‘Free Afghanistan Broadcasting’ an independent TV show for the Afghan community in New York for subsequent three years.

Sharif Ghalib was formerly broadcaster and anchor on national radio and television network prior to leaving Afghanistan.

Born in Kabul, Mr. Ghalib received his B.S. in law and political science from Kabul University, and pursued post-graduated studies, in international relations, at Virginia Theological University from 1995 to 1997.

Sharif Ghalib is married to Houssai and has a daughter, Sahar and last-born son, Massoud.