UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 01 November 2009 - H.E. Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, Libya's Secretary (Minister) of African Union Affairs, was elected President of the sixty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly on 10 June 2009.

“We should work together to avert war through the administration of justice in order to safeguard human lives and preserve human dignity," he said at acceptance speech at the United Nations General Assembly on 10 June 2009. "The only war worth relentlessly fighting, with the participation of all, is that against fatal diseases, poverty, hunger and illiteracy,” said the new President of the United Nations General Assembly.  Dr. Treki served as Libya’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations three times between 1982 to 1984 and has deep knowledge of the issues before the world body where he also chaired the General Assembly’s Fourth Committee on Decolonization and represented his country on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights; from 1986 to 1990; and, most recently, in 2003.  He was also a Vice-President of the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session in 1982. Dr. Treki was previously Libya’s Ambassador to France between 1995 to 1999, and the Permanent Representative to the League of Arab States in Cairo, Egypt between 1991 to 1994.  Previous to that Dr. Treki was Libya's Foreign Minister between 1977 to 1980. Dr. Treki had key involvement in the creation and development of the African Union and has also played important roles in the mediation of African conflicts in the Sudan, Chad, Eritrea, Ethipoia, Djibouti/Eritreas and in other regions including Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Philippines. Dr. Treki has been a leader of Libya’s diplomatic delegations many African summits and important conferences such as the ministerial meetings of the African Union Executive Council and the former Organization of African Unity. Dr. Treki also headed the Libyan delegation to summits and conferences of the League of Arab States while also chairing the League’s Council of Ministers between 1976 and 1977 and leading delegations to summits of the Organization of Islamic Conferences and the Council of Islamic States. He also lead Libya’s delegation to ministerial meetings of the Non-Aligned Movement and it’s 1979 Cuban summit conference. Dr. Treki has been presented with honorary doctorate degrees from universities in Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States of America, and received important decorations from governments, worldwide. Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki was born Misrata, Libya, in 1938 and earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Garyounes University, Benghazi, Libya, and a doctorate in political history from Toulouse University, France. He is fluent in Arabic, English and French. Dr. Treki is married with four children. ~~~~~

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