Abdul Ati al-Obeidi (; ar, عبد العاطي العبيدي; born 10 October 1939) is a
Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya bo ...
n politician and diplomat. He held various top posts in Libya under
Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, . Due to the lack of standardization of transcribing written and regionally pronounced Arabic, Gaddafi's name has been romanized in various ways. A 1986 column by ''The Straight Dope'' lists 32 spellin ...
; he was Prime Minister from 1977 to 1979 and General Secretary of
General People's Congress from 1979 to 1981. He was one of three main negotiators in Libya's decision to
denounce and drop their
nuclear weapon
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s program. In 2011, amidst the
First Libyan Civil War between
Gaddafi loyalists
Gaddafi loyalism, in a wider political and social sense also known as Green resistance, consists of sympathetic sentiment towards the overthrown government of Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed in October 2011. It has been responsible for some of ...
and
Anti-Gaddafi rebels, he was appointed Foreign Minister. On 31 August 2011, he was detained west of
Tripoli
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by rebel forces. In June 2013, a court found him not guilty of a charge of mismanagement.
Former Gaddafi official given senior position in Libyan eastern ruling body
Middle East Monitor, April 3, 2017
Career
;General Secretary of the General People's Committee (Prime Minister)
* 1 March 1977 to 1 March 1979
;General Secretary of the General People's Congress (Head of State)
* 2 March 1979 to 7 January 1981
;Other positions
* Minister for European Affairs
* Minister of Foreign Affairs: 1982 to 1984; 2011
* Deputy Foreign Minister
* Libyan Ambassador to Tunisia
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* Libyan Ambassador to Italy
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See also
* History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Gaddafi became the ''de facto'' leader of Libya on 1 September 1969 after leading a group of young Libyan Army officers against King Idris I in a bloodless coup d'état. After the king had fled the country, the Revolutionary Comman ...
* Foreign relations of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
The foreign relations of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi (1969–2011) underwent much fluctuation and change. They were marked by severe tension with the West (especially the United States, although relations were normalised in the early 21st centur ...
References
;Notes
World Statesmen – Libya
External links
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20060813115044/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0%2C%2C1111343%2C00.html The meeting that brought Libya in from the cold
1939 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of Libya
Heads of state of Libya
Secretaries-General of the General People's Congress
Foreign ministers of Libya
People of the First Libyan Civil War
Ambassadors of Libya to Tunisia
Ambassadors of Libya to Italy
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