Boualem Bessaïh

Boualem Bessaïh

Boualem Bessaïh ( Arabic بوعلام بسايح) (* 1930 in El Bayadh , Algeria ; † July 28, 2016 in Algiers ) was an Algerian diplomat and politician of the National Liberation Front FLN (Front de Liberation Nationale) .

Life

Bessaïh was involved in the National Liberation Army (Armée de Liberation Nationale) in the mid-1950s and served from 1959 to 1962 as a member of the General Secretariat of the National Council for the Algerian Revolution (Conseil national de la Révolution algérienne) . After Algeria's independence from France on July 5, 1962, he joined the Foreign Service one, served from 1963 to 1970 as ambassador in Belgium and was also as such as Ambassador to Luxembourg accredited . After being Ambassador to Egypt between 1970 and 1971 , he held the post of Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1971 to 1978, before being Ambassador to Kuwait between 1978 and 1980 .

In 1980 Bessaïh became Minister of Information (Ministre de l'Information) in the government of Prime Minister Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani and held this post until 1984. At the same time he held the office of Minister of Culture (Ministre de la Culture) between 1980 and 1982 . In the subsequent government of Prime Minister Abdelhamid Brahimi , he served from 1984 to 1986, first as Minister of Post and Telecommunications (Ministre des Postes et Télécommunications) and then from 1986 to 1988 as Minister of Culture and Tourism. In 1988 he replaced Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi and between 1988 and his replacement by Sid Ahmed Ghozali in 1989, he held the post of Foreign Minister (Ministre des Affaires étrangères) in the government of Prime Minister Kasdi Merbah . Between 1991 and 1992 he was accredited as ambassador to Switzerland and also as ambassador to the Holy See . In 1997 he was appointed a member of the National Council (Conseil de la nation) by President Liamine Zéroual and served as its third vice-president and chairman of its foreign affairs committee. He was then ambassador to Morocco between 2001 and 2005 .

In September 2005, Bessaïh was appointed by President Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika to succeed Mohamed Bedjaoui as President of the Conseil constitutionnel , the Supreme Court of Algeria, and held this position until he was replaced by Tayeb Belaiz in March 2012. Most recently, he served as Minister of State (Ministre d'État) and special advisor to President Bouteflika from June 11, 2016 until his death on July 26, 2016 .

Publications

In addition to his political and diplomatic career, Bessaïh wrote numerous books on historical figures such as Abd el-Kader , Louis-Philippe I , Napoleon III. and Abdellah Ben Kerriou . His publications include:

• Mohamed Belkheir, Etendard interdit , Paris 1976
• De l'Emir Abdelkader à l'Imam Chamyl. Le héros des Tchétchènes et du Caucase , Dahleb 1997, new edition Algiers 2001
• De Louis Philipe à Napoléon III. L'Emir Abdelkader, vaincu mais triomphant , Algiers 2002, new edition Beirut 2004.
• Au bout de l'authenticité, la résistance par l'épée ou la plume, Algiers 2002
• Abdellah Ben Kerriou, poète de Laghouat et du Sahara , Paris 2003.

Web links

• Entry on the website of the Constitutional Court (Conseil constitutionnel)
• Entry in rulers.org
• Décès à l'âge de 86 ans de Boualem Bessaieh, ministre d'Etat, conseiller spécial et représentant personnel du président de la République (obituary by Radio Algeria of July 28, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Algeria: Foreign Ministers
2. ↑ Les présidents du Conseil constitutionnel depuis 1989 on the homepage of the Constitutional Court (Conseil constitutionnel)