Habib Boularès ( ar, الحبيب بولعراس) (29 July 1933 – 18 April 2014) was a

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n diplomat and politician.

Biography

He first entered the cabinet in 1970 as Minister of Culture and Information, serving in that post until 1971. He served as the

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia ( ar, وزارة الشؤون الخارجية, french: Ministère des Affaires étrangères) is a cabinet-level governmental agency in Tunisia in charge of conducting and designing the foreign policy of ...

from 1990 to 1991, Minister of Defense for a brief period in 1991, and as Speaker Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 1997. He served as Secretary-General of the Arab-Maghreb Union from 2002 to 2006, and was succeeded by Habib Ben Yahia. Boularès died, aged 80, in

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