Abdul Sattar Moosa Didi

Abdul Sattar Moosa Didi (alternative name: Amir Abdul Sattar Faamudheyri Kilegefaanu ; * 1936 - † November 27, 2015 in Bangkok , Thailand ) was a Maldivian diplomat and politician .

Life

Didi was first secretary of the representation from 1957 to 1960 and then from 1960 to 1967 himself a representative in Ceylon . He was then Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York City from 1967 to 1970 and Ambassador to the USA between 1968 and 1970 . In the government of President Ibrahim Nasir, he was Finance Minister from 1971 to 1975. From October 1975 to May 1977 he was one of the Vice Presidents of the Maldives together with Ahmad Hilmy Didi , Ibrahim Shihab , Ali Maniku and Hassan Zareer .

During the tenure of Nasir's successor, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom , he was Minister of Education in the late 1970s and in that capacity opened the Baa Atoll Education Center in 1978 . He was later Minister for Fisheries in the 1980s and, most recently, Minister for Health and Welfare in the 1990s. In 1998 Didi became chair of the council of the Maldives College of Higher Education (MCHE), renamed Maldives National University in 2011 . During the mass demonstrations in September 2003 , he chaired a presidential commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Evan Naseem, who previously died in prison with two other inmates under unexplained circumstances.

Web links

• Entry in rulers.org
• Late Abdul Sattar Moosa Didi's passing away is a great loss to the nation - President Yameen (obituary on the homepage of the President's Office of November 30, 2015)
• Abdul Sattar Moosa Didi passes away: National Flag to be flown at half-mast (obituary by vnews.mv of November 28, 2015)
• Maldives at Fifty: penning a chapter in history (50th anniversary of independence from the UK , July 26, 2015)