Ali Abd-al-Aziz al-Isawi () (born c. 1966) is a

Libya Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east, Sudan to Libya–Sudan border, the southeast, Chad to Chad–L ...

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who is a leading figure of the

National Transitional Council The National Transitional Council (NTC) was a transitional government established in the 2011 Libyan civil war. After rebel forces overthrew the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya of Muammar Gaddafi in August 2011, the NTC governed Libya for a further ...

and was the vice-chairman of the executive board of the NTC until his dismissal along with the board's other ministers on 8 August 2011. He previously served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the NTC. He also was

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of the General People's Committee of Libya (GPCO) for

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and

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, and was the youngest minister to fill such a post. He was appointed to this post in January 2007. Before taking the ministerial position, he founded the Centre for Export Development in 2006 and became the first director general for it. He also assumed the position of director general for the Ownership expansion program (privatization fund) in 2005. He began his political career as a staff member and then as a diplomat in the Foreign Ministry until 2005. On 28 November, NTC chief military prosecutor Yussef Al-Aseifr announced that Isawi had been named chief suspect in the killing of

Abdul Fatah Younis Abdul Fatah Younis Al-Obeidi (; , sometimes transliterated ''Fattah Younis'' or ''Fattah Younes'' or ''Fatah Younes''; 1944 – 28 July 2011) was a Libyan military officer and politician. He served as Libya's interior minister until his resignat ...

, a senior military officer of the Gaddafi regime who had defected to the rebel side in the Libyan Civil War. Isawi denied involvement in the killing, saying he "never signed any decision relating to Abdel Fattah Younes."

References

External links

GPCO Website

General People's Committee For Youth and Sports - Libya Homepage
1966 births Living people Libyan diplomats Members of the General People's Committee of Libya Ministers of foreign affairs of Libya People of the Libyan civil war (2011) Members of the National Transitional Council Ambassadors of Libya to India {{Libya-politician-stub