Moulay Ali Alaoui

Moulay Ali Alaoui (* 1924 in Marrakech ; † 2001 ) was a Moroccan diplomat .

Life

Moulay Ali Alaoui attended the Lycée Lyautey de Casablanca . On August 16, 1961, he married Lella Fatima Zohra, a sister of Hassan II, in Rabat .

On April 25, 1965, Moulay Ali Alaoui met Ben Barka in Frankfurt am Main with his brother Abdell Kader Ben Barka. Hassan II had Moulay Ali Alaoui, his ambassador in Paris, deliver a message to his former math teacher Ben Barka:

"I have an equation to solve in Morocco"

- Moulay Ali Alaoui, April 25, 1965

Ben Barka then asked Ambassador Moulay Ali Alaoui: "Will the army accept an opening to the left?"

Moulay Ali Alaoui assured that the army was not a problem. Ben Barka proposed a government of the Union Nationale des Forces Populaires , which included a number of independent personalities named to the king and a two-year contract with far-reaching reforms, including an agrarian reform . Ben Barka stated that he would be happy to accept Hassan II's invitation to return to Morocco once his international commitments are completed.

From 1966 Moulay Ali Alaoui was chairman of Cosumar, the state sugar refinery, and later chairman of the Société de Banque et de Crédit . The Grande Nation decorated him with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Time , Aug. 25, 1961, Morocco: Choose Your Partners
2. ↑ Gilles Perrault : Our friend the King of Morocco: Abysses of a modern despotism . Leipzig; Weimar: Kiepenheuer 1992, p. 108 f.
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated August 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Abdellatif Filali	Moroccan ambassador to Paris 1964–1966	Abbas al-Fassi