Abdulla A. Alshammam

Abdulla Ahmed Alshariff Al-shammam born on 27 of july 1960, in Sa'adah, tip of the North of Yemen) is a Yemeni diplomat.

Biograaphy
He is the youngest Member of a family contents of three brothers and 3 sisters.This family, considered as a Hashemite family, living at North of Yemen, decended of ImmamAl-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya who established old city of Saada and rulled Yemen .His father is Al-shariff, Ahmed ibn Ahmed ibn Ali ibn Mohsen Ibn Al-immam. He was a scholar in Zaidiyyah,Zaidiyah. His mother is Aisha bint Yahya ibn Abdulla Ibn Al-hassan Ibn al-immamn. she is the latest ken of a family who rulled Sadaa area before,Immam Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din who took the power over saadah and attached it to his new established royal,kingdom named Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen in 1906. Both barent,were a Qasimi decented to Immam al-Qasim Ibn mohammed Al-Amlahi (releted to Wadi Amlah,Amlah valley located in Hamdan Ibn Zaid area, the North of saadah.

Education
When he finished his Secondary school, he went to Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, to continue his high education. He was admitted access to Study at Economic and Commerce Faculty, University of Sanaa, in 1979. After 4 years, he got a Bachelor and excellent with honor degree, at Economic and political science. He offered a profession in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Ministry of Civil service. After the exam, he joined the diplomatic staff in I984. In 1988, He worded a scholarship for training at Diplomatic institute for Diplomatic Studies, Cairo, Egypt. In 1990, he worded a scholarship by the British Foreign Service Office& Commonwelth in co-operation with the Arab Trade chamber in London, to undertake post-graduate studies in international law, international trade, Politics and diplomacy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is an alumnus of Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies.

Career
Al-shammam joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Yemen,in 1983. He was a diplomat at the Permanent Mission of Yemen to the United Nations from 1994 to 1998. He represented the Yemen Government in most of the UN Committees and General Assembly. He was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee and the preparatory committee on establishing the international Criminal Court .He Participated in coding and difining the crimes which should be considered under the jurdiction of the international criminal court. He was a member of the High commission to review the final stage of 1982 convention of law of the Sea and the Committee on establishing the international court of law of Sea.He gave a valouble support during the Hunish,Hanish Island crises when invaded and occupied for while by Eritrea State and for that, he a worded a written appreciation from Presidency office of Yemen. He worked for the United Nations at the Peace Keeping Operations Department from 1998 to 2000, and was appointed as a counselor at the Yemen embassy in London, United Kingdom from 2005 to 2007; and Rabat, Morocco from 2008 to 2009. , he was an ambassador for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sanaa, Yemen.

contributions
He wrote In Arabic The Red Sea and the International Conflicts (1990), and in English The Korean War and the Possibility of Unity (1992) and various of articles and many reports.He has contribution in compacting corruption in Yemen. He established Ahlalbait Foundation in Yemen and Immam ali Center for studies and human services in Yemen

Social Life
He is married and has 4 sons,and a daughter