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Chedli Klibi

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Chedli Klibi
الشاذلي القليبي
Klibi in 2013
4th Secretary-General of the Arab League
In office
March 1979 – September 3, 1990
Preceded byMahmoud Riad
Succeeded byAhmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid
Minister of Information of Tunisia
In office
1978–1979
Minister of Culture of Tunisia
In office
December 8, 1976 – September 20, 1978
PresidentHabib Bourguiba
Prime MinisterHédi Nouira
Preceded byMahmoud Messadi
Succeeded byMohamed Yalaoui [fr]
In office
June 24, 1971 – November 30, 1973
PresidentHabib Bourguiba
Prime MinisterHédi Nouira
Preceded byHabib Boularès
Succeeded byMahmoud Messadi
In office
October 7, 1961 – June 12, 1970
PresidentHabib Bourguiba
Prime MinisterBahi Ladgham (1969–1970)
Preceded byOffice created
Succeeded byHabib Boularès
Personal details
Born(1925-09-06)6 September 1925
Tunis, Tunisia
Died13 May 2020(2020-05-13) (aged 94)
Tunis, Tunisia
Political partySocialist Destourian Party

Chedli Klibi (Arabic: الشاذلي القليبي; September 6, 1925 – May 13, 2020) was a Tunisian politician. He was Secretary-General of the Arab League, and the only non-Egyptian to hold the post.

Early life

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Klibi graduated with a Baccalaureat de l'Enseignement Secondaire in philosophy from Sadiki College in 1944. After graduate work at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University where he earned a degree in Arabic language and literature in 1947. Having mastered the Arabic and French languages, he lectured at the Institut des Hautes Etudes and the Ecole Normale Superieure.

Career

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After becoming Director General of Radio Tunis in 1958, he became the Tunisian Minister of Cultural Affairs (1961 - 1970, 1971 - 1973, 1976 - 1978) under the chairmanship of Habib Bourguiba, then chief of staff to the president from 1974 to 1976 before being Minister of Information from 1978 to 1979. He also served as mayor of Carthage from 1963 to 1990. As mayor, he signed a symbolic "peace treaty" with the mayor of Rome, Ugo Vetere, in 1985 in commemoration of the 2,131st anniversary of the end of the Punic Wars between ancient Rome and ancient Carthage.[1]

Klibi was appointed secretary general of the Arab League in March 1979, as a result of the Egypt–Israel peace treaty. In 1990, he resigned from the post without explanation. As secretary general he held three ordinary summits for the Heads of Arab States and six extraordinary summits. As member of the House of Councillors from 2005 to 2008, Klibi spent his retirement in his Carthage residence with his wife Klibi Kalthoum.

Later life

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He wrote Orient-Occident - la paix violente which was published in 1999. This book was written in the form of an interview with French journalist Jennifer Moll, in which he envisages several matters involving Islam, Europe and his experiences as secretary general of the Arab League.

Honours

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Tunisian national medals

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Foreign honors

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Publications

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  • (in French) Orient-Occident : la paix violente, ed. Sand, Paris, 1999
  • (in French) Habib Bourguiba : radioscopie d'un règne, ed. Déméter, Tunis, 2012
  • (in Arabic) تونس و عوامل القلق العربي (Tunisia and Arab anxiety factors), ed. Sud editions, Tunis, 2020

References

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  1. ^ Habib Fakhari (February 5, 1985). "Rome and Carthage Sign Peace Treaty Ending Punic Wars After 2,131 Years". AP News. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
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1979–1990 		Succeeded by


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