Redha Malek
Appearance
Redha Malek | |
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رضا مالك | |
Liamine Zeroual | |
Preceded by | Belaid Abdessalam |
Succeeded by | Mokdad Sifi |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 3 February 1993 – 21 August 1993 | |
President | Ali Kafi |
Prime Minister | Belaid Abdessalam |
Preceded by | Lakhdar Brahimi |
Succeeded by | Mohamed Salah Dembri |
Minister of Information and Culture | |
In office 1977–1979 | |
President | Houari Boumédiène Rabah Bitat |
Personal details | |
Born | Batna, French Algeria | 21 December 1931
Died | 29 July 2017 Algiers, Algeria [citation needed] | (aged 85)
Redha Malek (
Islamist policy and successfully negotiated debt relief with the International Monetary Fund
(IMF), following the implementation of an IMF reform plan.
Biography
He was born in
Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). After 1963, he was sent as ambassador to Yugoslavia, France, the Soviet Union, the United States (1979–82), and the United Kingdom; he also briefly became Minister of Information and Culture (1977–79) and later Foreign Minister (3 February – 21 August 1993). He later became head of a minor political party, the National Republican Alliance
(ANR), founded on 5 May 1995 shortly after a presidential election.
He died on 29 July 2017, at the age of 85 after a long illness.[1][2]
Books
- L'Algerie a Evian: Histoire des négociations secretes, 1956-1962 (L'epreuve des faits); ISBN 2-02-023898-5
References
- ^ Décès de Redha Malek, ancien chef du gouvernement Archived 2017-10-19 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
- ^ "Algeria independence figure Redha Malek dies aged 86". www.9news.com.au. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2017.