Ahmed Laraki

Ahmed Moulay Laraki (Arabic: أحمد العراقي; ‎ born 15 October 1931 – 2 November 2020)[1][2] was a Moroccan politician and a figure of the national movement and served as the sixth Prime Minister of Morocco from October 6, 1969, to August 6, 1971, under King Hassan II.

After having obtained his doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine in Paris in 1957, Laraki moved to Casablanca to practice his profession.

[10] Two years later, on 7 October 1969, Laraki became Prime Minister of the same government and delegated the portfolio of Foreign Affairs to Abdelhadi Boutaleb.

[12] Laraki then moved to Paris until 25 April 1974, where he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in the Osman government.

During his tenure, he was part of the Moroccan negotiators' committee of the Madrid Accords, establishing the formalities of the Spanish withdrawal from Western Sahara.