Ahmed Osman

Ahmed Osman (1961)

Ahmed Osman ( Arabic أحمد عصمان, DMG Aḥmad ʿUṣmān ; * January 3, 1930 ) is a former Moroccan politician and diplomat .

Osman was Prime Minister of Morocco from November 2, 1972 to March 22, 1979 . In this role he led the Green March in 1975 . He was previously the country's ambassador to Germany from 1961 to 1962 and then moved to the United States, where he was Morocco's ambassador from 1967 to 1970.

From 1978 he was President of the Rassemblement National pour l'Indépendance (RNI) and later from 1984 to 1992 President of Parliament.

He was married to Princess Lalla Nuzha (1940–1977), the daughter of King Mohammed V.

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• People Africadatabase ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )