Habib Ben Yahia
Habib Ben Yahia ( Arabic الحبيب بن يحيى, DMG al-Ḥabīb b. Yaḥyā ; * July 30, 1938 in Tunis ) is a Tunisian diplomat and politician of the Socialist Destur Party , who was ambassador several times , between 1991 and 1997 and again from 1999 to 2004 foreign minister and in the meantime defense minister from 1997 to 1999. He later served as Secretary General of the Arab Maghreb Union between 2006 and 2016 .
Life
After attending school, Ben Yahia began studying English at the University of Tunis , which he completed with a master's degree. He then completed a postgraduate degree in international relations at Columbia University and then entered the diplomatic service in 1963. At first he was head of the department for the Anglophone States of Africa in the foreign ministry and then head of the department for economic relations with the USA, before he was counselor for economics at the embassy in the USA in 1967 and subsequently counselor at the embassy in France . After returning to Tunisia in 1973, he became Head of the Bilateral Financial Cooperation Unit and then Head of Cabinet of Foreign Minister Habib Chatty .
In 1976 Ben Yahia took up his first post as ambassador , from 1976 to 1977 as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates . He was then ambassador to Japan between 1977 and 1981 and ambassador to the USA from 1981 to 1988. After he was State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry between 1988 and 1991, he finally dissolved Habib Boularès on February 20, 1991 and served as Foreign Minister for the first time in the cabinet of Prime Minister Hamed Karoui until his replacement by Abderrahim Zouari on January 22, 1997 . After a cabinet reshuffle, he was the successor to Abdallah Kallel from January 22, 1997 until his replacement by Mohamed Jegham on November 17, 1999 Minister of Defense in the Karoui cabinet.
In the government of Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi, Ben Yahia held the post of Foreign Minister for the second time as successor to Saïd Ben Mustapha between November 17, 1999 and his replacement by Abdelbaki Hermassi on November 10, 2004. On February 1, 2006, he succeeded Habib Boularès as Secretary General of the Union of the Arab Maghreb . He held this position for ten years until May 5, 2016, after which Taieb Baccouche became his successor.
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| SURNAME | Ben Yahia, Habib |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | الحبيب بن يحيى (Arabic); al-Habib Bin Yahya (alternative spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tunisian diplomat and politician of the Socialist Destur Party |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tunis |