Hot Kelani

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Heissam Kelani ( Arabic هيثم كيلاني, DMG Haiṯam Kailānī ; * August 6, 1926 in Damascus ) is a former Syrian diplomat.

Life

Heissam Kelani graduated from the Homs Military Academy in 1945 . He went to Paris and received further training at the Air Force Military School there. In 1946 he returned to the armed forces in Syria, which had just become independent. He served as a military assistant under Head of State Husni az-Za'im . Kelani did not take part in coup attempts in the troubled political situation in the country and made a career in the military. In 1957 he was appointed Commander in Chief of the Air Force . During the union with Egypt which he supported, he served as Deputy Air Force Chief in Cairo . After returning from Egypt, he became General Secretary in the Ministry of Information.

From 1962 he was his country's ambassador , first in Algiers until 1963 , then in Rabat from 1966 to 1967 . From 1967 to 1969 he was Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From August 14, 1969 to July 25, 1970 he represented the government of Nureddin Mustafa al-Atassi in Berlin, the capital of the GDR . From 1972 to 1975 he represented the Hafiz al-Assad government at the UN headquarters .

Heissam Kelani is the son of Saba Azem and Amine Kelani. In 1951 Heissam Kelani married Daad Tayeh, they have a daughter and a son.

Publications

  • Basics and development tendencies of the military aspect in the struggle for Arab unity, 1973

Individual evidence

  1. Sami Moubayed: Steel and Silk - Men and Women Who Shaped Syria 1900-2000 , Seattle, 2006, pp. 63-65
  2. ^ The international who's who 1991-92 , 1800 pp. 837
predecessor Office successor
Syrian ambassador in Algiers
1962 to 1963
شاكر الفحام (Shaker Stoker)
Sami al-Droubi Syrian ambassador in Rabat
1966 to 1967
Ghaleb Hamdi Abdoun
Adnan Omran Syrian Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic
August 14, 1969 to July 25, 1970
Saad Badawi al-Fatatry
George Tomeh Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations from
1972 to 1975
Mowaffak Allaf