Redha Malek ( ar, رضا مالك) (21 December 1931 – 29 July 2017) was an Algerian politician who served as

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from 21 August 1993 to April 1994. During his short term of office, which came in the early years of the Algerian Civil War, he pursued a hardline anti- Islamist policy and successfully negotiated

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with the

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(IMF), following the implementation of an IMF reform plan.

Biography

He was born in Batna on 21 December 1931 and was editor of the FLN

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'' between 1957 and 1962, during the

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(1954–62). After 1963, he was sent as ambassador to

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, the

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, the

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(1979–82), and the

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; he also briefly became Minister of Information and Culture (1977–79) and later Foreign Minister (3 February – 21 August 1993). He later became head of the a minor political party, the

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(ANR), founded on 5 May 1995 shortly after a presidential election. He died on 29 July 2017, at the age of 85 after a long illness.

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1931 births 2017 deaths People from Batna, Algeria National Liberation Front (Algeria) politicians National Republican Alliance politicians Culture ministers of Algeria Ambassadors of Algeria to France Ambassadors of Algeria to the Soviet Union Ambassadors of Algeria to Yugoslavia Ambassadors of Algeria to the United Kingdom Ambassadors of Algeria to the United States Foreign ministers of Algeria 21st-century Algerian people {{Algeria-politician-stub