Omar Samad is the current Ambassador of Afghanistan to Canada. Previous to this title, he was spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul.
From 1980-1982, he was the President of the Afghan Student Association, Virginia, USA. After that, he immediately became the President of the Afghan Youth Council in America from 1982-1989. In 1986, he moved on to study at The American University in Washington, D.C., where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and International Affairs.
By 1996, he started became the executive producer of the Azadi Afghan Radio and its website, based out of America. When the September 11th incident happened, he quit that position to become a commentator and analyst for CNN during Bonn Accords on Afghanistan. He also made numerous appearances on the BBC, FOX, MSNBC and major international television and radio programs.
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Embassy of Afghanistan in Ottawa: Omar Samad (http://www.afghanistanembassy.ca/english/ambassador.html)
OmarSamad is the Director of the Afghanistan Information Center, and is working as a CNN consultant during the meeting near Bonn, Germany about a post-Taliban government.
SAMAD: The expectations on the part of the Afghan delegations that are gathered here in Bonn are basically to find an arrangement that is acceptable to all of them that will open the way for the formation of a new post-Taliban transitional government.
SAMAD: An interim government will be composed of an executive head of state, maybe some deputies, a prime minister, maybe, a cabinet of ministers, each of whom will be responsible for a specific portfolio within that cabinet, and the revival of a governmental structure within the country.
SAMAD: Already, you are seeing two very active, well-respected, and well-known Afghan women, one in the health sector, the other in the women's rights sector, who have also been involved in other types of work in the past, as part of the new administration.
SAMAD: I believe there are two requirements to make sure that the Taliban and the leaders, most of whom have unfortunately escaped, are barred from participation in any political activity.
SAMAD: I am sure that will be an issue that will be debated in the new constitutional commission that will be activated in the second phase of the political process that has been put in place, meaning, after six months.
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