Chedli Klibi

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Chedli Klibi (

After becoming Director General of Radio Tunis in 1958, he became the Tunisian Minister of Cultural Affairs (1961 - 1970, 1971 - 1973, 1976 - 1978) under the chairmanship of Habib Bourguiba, then chief of staff to the president from 1974 to 1976 before being Minister of Information from 1978 to 1979. He also served as mayor of Carthage from 1963 to 1990. As mayor, he signed a symbolic "peace treaty" with the mayor of Rome, Ugo Vetere, in 1985 in commemoration of the 2,131st anniversary of the end of the Punic Wars between ancient Rome and ancient Carthage.^[1]

Klibi was appointed secretary general of the Arab League in March 1979, as a result of the Egypt–Israel peace treaty. In 1990, he resigned from the post without explanation. As secretary general he held three ordinary summits for the Heads of Arab States and six extraordinary summits. As member of the House of Councillors from 2005 to 2008, Klibi spent his retirement in his Carthage residence with his wife Klibi Kalthoum.

Later life

He wrote Orient-Occident - la paix violente which was published in 1999. This book was written in the form of an interview with French journalist Jennifer Moll, in which he envisages several matters involving Islam, Europe and his experiences as secretary general of the Arab League.

Honours

Tunisian national medals

•  :
• Grand Cordon of the Order of Independence
• Grand Cordon of the Order of the Republic
• Grand Cordon of the National Order of Merit of Tunisia

Foreign honors

•  Algeria : Medal of Honor of the Republic of Algeria
•  Lebanon : Grand Cordon of the National Order of the Cedar
•  Morocco : Grand Cordon of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite
•  Palestine : Grand Cordon of the National Order of Palestine

Publications

• (in French) Orient-Occident : la paix violente, ed. Sand, Paris, 1999
• (in French) Habib Bourguiba : radioscopie d'un règne, ed. Déméter, Tunis, 2012
• (in Arabic) تونس و عوامل القلق العربي (Tunisia and Arab anxiety factors), ed. Sud editions, Tunis, 2020

References

External links

• "Danger of division, Humanity, September 5 1990^{[permanent dead link]}

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