Mahmoud Mestiri

Background

MESTIRI, Mahmoud was born on December 25, 1929 in Tunis. Son of Mohamed Mestiri and Zohra Lasram.

Education

Student, Institute dÉtudes Politiques, France. Student, University de Lyons, France.

Career

Tunisian delegate United Nations, New York City, alternate delegate, 1958-1959. Head of Tunisian Special Diplomatic Mission to Congo Leopoldville, 1960. Assistant to personal Republican of United Nations Secretary-General Belgium, 1961.

Deputy permanent representative of Tunisia United Nations, New York City, 1962-1965. Secretary-general for fgn affairs Tunis, 1965-1967. Permanent representative United Nations, Tunisia, 1967-1969, chairman special committee on granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples, 1968-1969.

Tunisian ambassador Federal Republic of Germany, 1971-1973, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and Poland, 1973-1976. Tunisian permanent representative United Nations, New York City, 1976-1980. Minister of foreign affairs Tunis, Tunisia, since 1987.

Interests

• Ping-pong, swimming, watching football.

Connections

Son of Mohamed and Sohra Lasram M. Divorced; one son of.

Father:

Mohamed Mestiri

Mother:

Sohra Lasram Mestiri