Death of Mr. Boualem Bessaieh, Honorary President of the CJCA and former President of Algeria Constitutional Council.
ALGIERS – Boualem Bessaieh, Minister of State, Special Adviser and Personal Representative of the President of the Republic, died Thursday in Algiers at the age of 86, following a long illness.
Born in 1930 in El Bayadh, Boualem Bessaieh, politician and man of letters, was a former mujahid (fighter), having been particularly member of the General Secretariat of the National Council of the Algerian Revolution from 1959 to 1962.
At independence, he served as ambassador in several capital cities (Bern, The Vatican, Cairo, Kuwait City and Rabat) and Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry in 1971.
In 1979, he joined the government and has held several ministerial portfolios. He was successively appointed Minister of Information, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Culture Minister and finally Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1988.
In this capacity, he participated in the tripartite committee Algeria-Morocco-Saudi Arabia, decided by the Arab summit in Casablanca, the efforts to achieve the Taif Agreement that ended the civil war in Lebanon.
In 1997 he was appointed member of the Council of the Nation (lower house), under the third presidential and elected President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the 2nd Chamber of Parliament.
In September 2005, Mr. Bessaieh was appointed by the President to the high office of President of the Constitutional Council.
In May 2011, he was at the origin of the creation of the Conference of African Constitutional Courts (abbreviated C.J.C.A.) whose congress constitutive was met in Algiers to adopt the statute.
The deceased was the author of several literary and historical works including the Emir Abdelkader.
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