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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 by	Mahmoud Riad
Succeeded by	Ahmed 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
President	Habib Bourguiba
Prime Minister	Hédi Nouira
Preceded by	Mahmoud Messadi
Succeeded by	Mohamed Yalaoui [fr]
In office June 24, 1971 – November 30, 1973
President	Habib Bourguiba
Prime Minister	Hédi Nouira
Preceded by	Habib Boularès
Succeeded by	Mahmoud Messadi
In office October 7, 1961 – June 12, 1970
President	Habib Bourguiba
Prime Minister	Bahi Ladgham (1969–1970)
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Habib Boularès

Personal details
Born	(1925-09-06)6 September 1925 Tunis, Tunisia
Died	13 May 2020(2020-05-13) (aged 94) Tunis, Tunisia
Political party	Socialist 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

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

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

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

Tunisian national medals

:
Grand Cordon of the Order of Independence
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Republic
Grand Cordon of the National Order of Merit of Tunisia

Foreign honors

Algeria : Medal of Honor of the Republic of Algeria
Lebanon : Grand Cordon of the National Order of the Cedar
Morocco : Grand Cordon of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite
Palestine : Grand Cordon of the National Order of Palestine

Publications

(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

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

External links

"Danger of division, Humanity, September 5 1990^{[permanent dead link‍]}

Preceded by Mahmoud Riad	Secretary-General of the Arab League 1979–1990	Succeeded by Esmat Abdel Meguid

v t e Secretaries General of the Arab League
Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam Abdul Khalek Hassouna Mahmoud Riad Chedli Klibi Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid Amr Moussa Nabil Elaraby Ahmed Aboul Gheit

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