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{{Short description|Bangladeshi politician and diplomat}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali
| native_name = আবুল হাসান মাহমুদ আলী
| native_name_lang = bn
| image = Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali - 2018 (29993917937) (cropped).jpg
| caption = Ali in 2018
| constituency_MP1 = [[Dinajpur-4]]
| term_start1 = January 2009
| term_end1 =
| primeminister1 = [[Sheikh Hasina]]
| office2 = Minister of Disaster Management and Relief of Bangladesh
| term_start2 = December 2012
| term_end2 =
| primeminister2 = Sheikh Hasina
| office3 = [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh)|Minister of Fordign Affairs]]
| term_start3 = 20 November 2013
| term_end3 = 7 January 2019
| primeminister3 = Sheikh Hasina
| predecessor3 = [[Dipu Moni]]
| successor3 = [[AK Abdul Momen]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1943|06|02}}
| birth_place = [[Dinajpur]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] (now in [[Bangladesh]])
| party = [[Bangladesh Awami League|Awami League]]
}}

'''Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali''' ({{lang-bn| আবুল হাসান মাহমুদ আলী}}; born 2 June 1943) is a [[Bangladeshi people|Bangladeshi]] politician and diplomat who served as parliamentarian and cabinet minister including the [[Foreign Minister of Bangladesh]] from 2013 to 2019.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2016/05/19/foreign-minister-hasan-mahmood-ali-congratulates-mamata-banerjee-on-her-partys-win|title=Foreign minister Hasan Mahmood Ali congratulates Mamata Banerjee on her party's win|work=bdnews24.com|access-date=29 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/96805/BBIN-to-be-game-changer-Mahmood|title=BBIN to be game changer: Mahmood|work=Prothom Alo|access-date=29 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405193335/http://en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/96805/BBIN-to-be-game-changer-Mahmood|archive-date=5 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> He previously served as Minister of Disaster Management and Relief from 2012 to 2013.

==Early life and education==
Ali was born on 2 June 1943 in Daktarpara, Khamar Bishnuganj (Tangua Post Office), [[Khansama Upazila|Khansama]], [[Dinajpur District, Bangladesh|Dinajpur]] (now in [[Bangladesh]]). He received a B.A. with Honours (1962) and an M.A. degree in economics (1963) from Dhaka University. He was a lecturer in economics at [[Dhaka University]] from 1964 to 1966.<ref name=MOFA2014>{{cite web|title=Life Sketch of H.E. Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, M.P., Foreign Minister, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh |url=http://www.mofa.gov.bd/CV/bdfmprofile.pdf |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka |date=2014 |access-date=30 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207201928/http://www.mofa.gov.bd/CV/bdfmprofile.pdf |archive-date=7 February 2015 }}</ref>

==Diplomatic career==
Ali joined the Pakistan Foreign Service (then including Bangladesh) in 1966 and was posted as Vice-Consul of [[Pakistan]] in New York City in 1968. Immediately after arriving in New York in 1968, he began to organise the small Bangladeshi community in the United States. Ali joined the [[Bangladesh Liberation war]], in April 1971, and was appointed as the representative to the United States from the provisional government of Bangladesh at [[Mujibnagar]], in May 1971. Ali fought for [[Bangladesh]] independence in the US and at the United Nations. He was executive assistant to Justice [[Abu Sayeed Chowdhury]], Chief Overseas Representative of the Mujibnagar government, and leader of the Bangladesh delegation to the United Nations.{{Citation needed|date= May 2022}}

After [[Bangladeshi Declaration of Independence|the declaration of Bangladesh's independence]], Ali served as representative to the United Nations and later as Acting Consul-General in New York City. Subsequently, he served in various capacities at the Foreign Ministry in Dhaka and at Bangladesh missions abroad. He served, from 1977 to 1979, as [[Diplomatic rank|First Secretary]], Counsellor and Deputy High Commissioner in New Delhi, India. At the foreign ministry, from 1979 to 1982, Ali served as Director-General for Administration, for International Organisations, for [[United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs]], for Policy Planning for South Asia, and for Human Rights. From 1983 to 1986, Ali was Deputy Chief of Mission with the rank of Ambassador, in Beijing, China. From 1986 to 1990, he was Ambassador to [[Bhutan]].{{Citation needed|date= May 2022}}

As Additional Foreign Secretary (Bilateral), Ali handled South Asia and Human Rights among other subjects. He negotiated and signed the agreement for the [[Tin Bigha Corridor]] Implementation Agreement with India, in 1992, and negotiated the Burmese [[Refugees]] Repatriation Agreement with [[Myanmar]] in 1992. Ali was Ambassador to Germany, with concurrent accreditation to [[Austria]], the [[Czech Republic]], and [[Slovakia]], from 1992 to 1995; Ambassador to Nepal from February to October 1996; and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, with concurrent accreditation to Ireland, from 1996 to 2001.<ref name="MOFA2014" />

==Political career==
After retiring from active diplomatic service, in April 2001, Ali entered politics, joining the [[Bangladesh Awami League]]. He served as a member of the Awami League Central Election Committee and was appointed a member of the Central Advisory Council of the Awami League (December 2002). He was subsequently appointed co-chairman of the Awami League Subcommittee on International Affairs.{{Citation needed|date= May 2022}}

In December 2008, Ali was elected to parliament as an Awami League candidate, representing a rural constituency in Dinajpur, in northern Bangladesh. He was elected Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He received Government appointments to serve on various other important committees. He was appointed to the Cabinet on 13 September 2012 and assumed charge of the newly created Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, as Minister, on 16 September 2012. Ali was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in the government formed on 21 November 2013. He was re-appointed on 26 February 2014, following his re-election in the parliamentary elections of January 2014.<ref name="MOFA2014" />

==Political positions==

Ali has been critical of [[Rohingya people|Rohingya]] in Bangladesh, and has stated that he considers Rakhine Muslims to be a [[national security]] threat.<ref>{{cite news |work=[[The Star (Bangladesh)|The Star]] |quote="Twenty to 25 percent people in Cox’s Bazar are now Rakhine Muslims. Such huge presence of Rakhine Muslims in the area will pose a threat to the national security in future," he said in reply to lawmakers’ queries [...] He went on saying, "The Rakhine people have been engaged in various misdeeds, including drug smuggling on bordering areas and arms and human trafficking. They've become a national security concern for Bangladesh." |title=Rohingyas may be threat to Bangladesh's security: Foreign minister |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/country/rohingyas-may-be-thereat-bangladeshs-security-foreign-minister-1420546 |date=15 June 2022}}</ref>

==Family==
Ali has a wife and two grown sons.<ref name=MOFA2014/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.dmrd.gov.bd/ Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief website]
* [https://docs.google.com/file/d/0By1zpMHQG58fV2ktT3E2UHdERWs/edit Life sketch of Mr Mahmood Ali from Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief ]
* [http://www.cabinet.gov.bd/ List of Ministries] (general site link, English version available)

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