Muhi ad-Din Fikini

Muhi ad-Din Fikini (waving)

Muhi ad-Din Fikini , also Mohieddin Fekini ( Arabic محي الدين فكيني, DMG Muḥī ad-Dīn Fikīnī ; * March 10, 1925 - in Fessan ; † July 9, 1994 ) was Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Libya in 1963 and 1964 .

Fikini comes from the Rajban clan from the mountainous region of Jabal Nafusa in northwest Libya. His father, Mohammed ben Khalifa Fikini , participated in the resistance against the occupation of Libya by Italy from 1911 . When the resistance movement collapsed in 1923, he and his family fled to the Fessan region, where Muhi ad-Din was born in 1925. In 1929 the family had to flee again after the Italian troops marched into Fessan and finally settled in Gabès , Tunisia . After the father's death in 1950, the family returned to Tripoli in 1953 . At that time, Muhi ad-Din was studying law at the University of Paris and received his doctorate in 1953 with the dissertation Le Règlement de la question libyenne par l'organization des Nations Unies.

From 1953 to 1956 Fikini was Libya's ambassador to Egypt . From 1958 he was the Libyan ambassador to the United Nations and the USA .

On March 19, 1963, King Idris I appointed Fikini as the next Prime Minister and tasked him with forming a cabinet. However, only nine months later, on January 22, 1963, he had to resign as a result of riots in Benghazi .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Chronicle of United Nations activities - Google Books . ( online on Google Books [accessed January 10, 2012]).
2. ^ Arab Information Center (ed.): The Arab World. Volumes 3-5. 1957, p. 165
3. ↑ حدث في مثل هذا اليوم: رحيل محي الدين فكيني
4. ^ Let Us Restore Their Dignity. In: Angelo Del Boca: Mohamed Fekini and the Fight to Free Libya. From the series Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave, 2010. ' ISBN 978-0230108868 , p. 167