Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed

Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed (born April 10, 1928 in Kurugoda , Ceylon , † September 3, 1999 in Colombo ) was a Sri Lankan politician .

biography

Hameed ( Ḥāmid ), a member of the United National Party (UNP), was appointed Foreign Minister in the government of Prime Minister Junius Richard Jayawardene in 1977 . He also held this post after Jayawardene became president after a constitutional reform in 1978, in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa until 1989.

When Premadasa became president in 1989, Hameed became Minister of Higher Education in Prime Minister Dingiri Banda Wijetunga's government as part of a government reshuffle . In this capacity, too, he was head of the government side in the peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). These talks broke off, however, and fighting between government forces and the LTTE, who were fighting for the independence of the Tamil- dominated north and east of Sri Lanka from the rest of the island, began again.

When Wijetunga became President of Sri Lanka after Premadasa's assassination in 1993, he was reappointed Foreign Minister in Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's cabinet . Even after the UNP lost power in the 1994 general election, Hameed continued to play a key role in party efforts to resolve the conflict in the war- torn country after the end of the ethnic conflict .

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