Boualem Bessaïh

He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria from 1988 to 1989 and President of the Constitutional Council from 2005 to 2012.

[1] Born in 1930 in El Bayadh, he joined the maquis in early 1957 and occupied important functions in the ranks of the armed revolution.

He was among the founders of the Algerian secret services, led the section of espionage based in Tripoli, and was a member of the general secretariat of the National Council of the Algerian Revolution from 1959 to 1962.

After independence, he served as ambassador in several European and Arab capitals (Bern, the Vatican, Cairo, Kuwait City, Rabat).

As such, he participated actively in the tripartite Algeria - Morocco - Saudi Arabia, decided by the Arab Summit in Casablanca, the efforts made to arrive at the 1989 Taif Agreement to put an end to the Lebanese Civil War.