Ali Treki

Ali Treki (2010)

Ali Abdussalam Treki , also Triki ( Arabic علي عبد السلام التريكي, DMG ʿAlī ʿAbd as-Salām at-Turaikī ; * 1938 in Misrata ; † October 19, 2015 in Cairo ), was a Libyan diplomat who was Foreign Minister of his country between 1976 and 1982 and again from 1984 to 1986 and President of the 64th General Assembly of the United Nations in 2009  .

Life

After attending school, Treki first completed a degree in history at the University of Benghazi and graduated with a bachelor's degree . A postgraduate course in the subject Political History at the University of Toulouse , he finished with a doctorate.

Treki then joined the foreign service and was, as envoy, between 1970 and 1973, first director of the political administration of the Foreign Ministry and then director of the administration for Africa, before he was deputy foreign minister for political affairs from 1974 to 1976. During these years he was a member and head of several Libyan delegations at summits and conferences in Africa , such as the Organization for African Unity (OAE) and the African Union that emerged from it .

In 1977 Treki became Libya's foreign minister for the first time and held this office until he was replaced by Abd al-Ati al-Ubayyidi in 1982. He was also head of the Libyan delegation at summits and meetings of the Arab League and from 1976 to 1977 chairman of the Arab Council of Ministers League. During this time he also took part in numerous meetings of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and was temporarily chairman of its Council of Ministers. He was also head of the Libyan delegation at the summit of the Movement of Non-Aligned States in Havana in 1979 .

After leaving the government, Treki was made permanent representative of Libya to the United Nations in New York City for the first time in 1982 and held this position until 1984. During this time he was also chairman of the fourth main committee responsible for decolonization of the United Nations General Assembly and a representative of Libya in the UN Commission on Human Rights, and in 1982 he was Vice-President of the 37th UN General Assembly as representative of Imre Hollai .

In 1984 he succeeded Abd al-Ati al-Ubayyidi again as foreign minister and kept this office until he was replaced by Kamal Hassan Mansur in 1984 . He then acted again as permanent representative of Libya to the United Nations between 1986 and 1990, before he was permanent representative of the Arab League in Cairo from 1991 to 1994 . He was then ambassador to France between 1995 and 1999 .

Treki, who played a key role within the African Union and was active as a mediator in numerous conflicts such as in Sudan , Chad , Ethiopia , Eritrea , Djibouti , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Cyprus and the Philippines , became permanent again on September 18, 2003 Representative to the United Nations. In 2004, he was also appointed Minister for African Union Affairs to the cabinet of Libya.

On June 10, 2009 he was elected President of the 64th session of the UN General Assembly and thus the successor to Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann . He held this position until he was replaced by Joseph Deiss in 2010.

During the civil war in Libya , Treki was reappointed Permanent Representative to the United Nations on March 4, 2011 by the government of Muammar al-Gaddafi . However, he was not granted an entry visa by the US government, so Foreign Minister Mussa Kussa declared on March 29, 2011 that the representation of Nicaragua's interests , Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, would be temporarily taken over.

Web links

Commons : Ali Treki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography on the homepage of the United Nations
• List of Foreign Ministers of Libya (rulers.org)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ وفاة وزير الخارجية الأسبق علي التريكي في القاهرة ( Memento from October 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Interpol warns of Gaddafi . In: TAZ of March 4, 2011
3. ^ Former Nicaragua Sandinista Leader Named Libya's UN Envoy in Bloomberg LP of March 30, 2011