Pascaline Bongo was appointed as Personal Adviser to the President of the Republic in 1987[1][2] and entered the government as Minister of Foreign Affairs in June 1991.
[1][3] In her first address to the United Nations later in 1991, she praised the expulsion of Iraqi forces from Kuwait and expressed concern over violence in South Africa.
She welcomed reforms in South Africa, but also stressed that further steps were needed to fully eliminate the apartheid system.
[1] Following her father's death in June 2009, her half-brother Ali was elected President; immediately after taking office, Ali moved Pascaline from her post as Director of the Presidential Cabinet to the post of High Personal Representative of the Head of State on 17 October 2009.
[7] In October 2023, the Paris prosecutor's office announced that Pascaline Bongo will be tried in early 2024 with the company Egis Route, a subsidiary of the French construction group Egis, and five other people for suspicion of corruption linked to public contracts in Gabon in 2010 and 2011.