Nasri Maalouf

Nasri Maalouf ( Nasri Ma'luf , Arabic نصري معلوف; * February 11, 1911 in Mashrae , Beirut , Lebanon ; † April 2, 2005 in Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates ) was a Lebanese politician who was one of the "fathers" of the Taif Agreement of October 22, 1989, which ended the Lebanese civil war that began in 1975 .

Life

Maalouf, a member of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church , was first appointed to a Lebanese government in 1951 as Minister of Social Affairs. Between 1956 and 1957 he was Minister of Finance in the fifth cabinet of Prime Minister Sami al-Solh . In 1968 he was again Minister of Social Affairs for some time.

In 1968 he was elected for the first time as a member of the National Assembly and belonged to it after his re-election from 1972 to 1992, as the parliament could not be elected during the civil war that lasted from 1975 to 1990. After his election in 1968, he became Minister of Tourism in the seventh government of Prime Minister Abdullah Aref al-Yafi .

Between 1973 and 1974 Maalouf was Minister of Defense in the first government of Prime Minister Takieddin as-Solh .

Maalouf, known for his moderate views within the country's complex political system, was one of the Christian -influenced MPs who traveled to Ta'if in Saudi Arabia in 1989 to negotiate an Arab- backed peace treaty with the Islamic MPs. to end the nearly fifteen year civil war. On October 22, 1989, the Taif Agreement was finally signed. According to the Lebanese economist and journalist Marwan Iskandar , Maalouf, together with the later Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri, who was assassinated on February 14, 2005, as well as a lawyer and a linguist, drafted the agreement before it was given its final form through comments from Lebanese politicians and groups .

In 1992 he took over the offices of Minister of Justice and Foreign Affairs in the second government of Prime Minister Rashid as-Solh for some time .

After the death of the MP Joseph Mukhaizal , he was re-elected to the National Assembly in a by-election in 1995 , and was a member of this until the end of the four-year legislative period in 1996.

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• Biography (rulers.org)