Mohamed Abdelaziz (Libyan politician)


Mohamed Abdelaziz is a Libyan politician who served as the foreign minister and chairman of the Arab League council of ministers from January 2013 to August 2014.

Education

Graduated from the Political Science Department of Cairo University in 1975.
He worked for the Libyan Mission to the United Nations and was under-secretary of the Foreign Ministry at the time of Abdel Rahim Al-Kib.

Career

Abdelaziz was a member of the Libyan Mission to the UN. Then he worked at the Crime Prevention Centre in Vienna. He served as deputy minister of international cooperation and foreign affairs in the transition government of Libya. On 7 January 2013, Abdelaziz was appointed minister of international cooperation and foreign affairs after these two ministries were remerged. The cabinet was headed by Ali Zidan.
Abdelaziz's term as foreign minister ended when the cabinet resigned on 29 August 2014. He was replaced by Mohammed al-Dairi in the post.

Views

In April 2014 he called for the restoration of the Senussi dynasty and that the constitutional monarchy established by the federalist constitution of 1951 was the "only solution" for "the return of security and stability to Libya".