{{Short description|Lebanese politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Fawzi Salloukh | image = Fawzi Salloukh, April 2009.jpg | image_size = | office = [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants (Lebanon)|Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants]] | prime_minister = [[Fouad Siniora]] | predecessor = [[Mahmoud Hammoud (politician)|Mahmoud Hammoud]] | successor = [[Ali Al Shami]] | term_start = 19 June 2005 | term_end = 9 November 2009 | office2 = | prime_minister2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1931}} | birth_place = [[Qmatiye]], [[Lebanon]] | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | party = | alma_mater = [[American University of Beirut]] | spouse = Hind Basma | children = 3 | website = | footnotes = | caption = Salloukh in 2009 }}
'''Fawzi Salloukh''' (born 1931) is a Lebanese politician, who served as [[Foreign Minister|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] from 19 July 2005 to 2009.
==Early life and education== Salloukh was born into a [[Shia Islam in Lebanon|Shiite]] family in [[Qmatiye]], [[Aley District|Aley]], Lebanon, in 1931.<ref name=now11ju>{{cite news|title=Meet the government|url=https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/nowspecials/meet_the_government|accessdate=11 March 2013|newspaper=Now Lebanon|date=11 July 2008|archive-date=6 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906114718/https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/nowspecials/meet_the_government|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=alawin05/> He graduated from the [[American University of Beirut]] in 1954 with a diploma in political Science.<ref name=now11ju/>
==Career and alliances== Salloukh is a Lebanese career [[diplomat]] who served as ambassador to [[Sierra Leone]] (1964–1971), [[Nigeria]] (1978–1985), [[Algeria]] (1985–1987), [[Austria]] (1990–1994), and [[Belgium]] (1994–1995).{{citation needed|date=September 2025}} He also served as Lebanon's ambassador to the [[European Union]]. At the beginning of the 1970s, he was director of economic affairs at the ministry of foreign affairs. He retired after his tenure as ambassador to Belgium. Then he worked as the secretary general of the Islamic University in Lebanon from 1998 to 2005.{{citation needed|date=September 2025}} [[File:Salloukh et Rice.jpg|thumb|Salloukh with [[Condoleezza Rice]] on February 23, 2006]] In July 2005, he was appointed foreign minister to the cabinet led by then prime minister [[Fouad Siniora]].<ref name=now11ju/> Salloukh was proposed by [[Hizbollah]] to this post when Hizbollah's own candidates for the post were not accepted due to international pressure.<ref name=alawin05>{{cite journal|last=Alagha|first=Joseph|title=Hizballah after the Syrian Withdrawal|journal=Middle East Report|date=Winter 2005|volume=237|issue=237|pages=34–39|jstor=30042473|doi=10.2307/30042473}}</ref> He was a moderate figure, and [[Amal Movement|the Amal movement]] endorsed his appointment.<ref name=alawin05/>
He resigned from office with other four Shiite ministers in November 2006.<ref name=now11ju/> The reason for their resignation was Siniora's eagerness to sign the UN draft plan for the foundation of [[Special Tribunal for Lebanon|the Special Tribunal for Lebanon]], which would search the assassination of Rafik Hariri, who was killed on 14 February 2005.<ref name=meq11>{{cite journal|last=Khashan|first=Hilal|title=Saad Hariri's Moment of Truth|journal=Middle East Quarterly|date=Winter 2011|volume=XVIII|issue=1|pages=65–71|url=http://www.meforum.org/2820/saad-hariri-moment-of-truth|accessdate=11 March 2013}}</ref>
Salloukh was again appointed to the same post in the cabinet headed by Fouad Siniora in July 2008.<ref name=now11ju/> His tenure lasted until 2009, and he was succeeded by [[Ali Al Shami|Ali Shami]].<ref name=der10nov>{{cite news|last=Derhally|first=Massoud A.|title=Lebanon's Hariri Confirmed Unity Prime Minister|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a5XLca4_A2e0|accessdate=30 March 2013|publisher=Bloomberg L.P.date=10 November 2009}}</ref>
==Personal life== Salloukh is married to Hind Basma and has three children.<ref name=wire12july>{{cite news|title=Profiles: Lebanon's new government|url=http://www.lebanonwire.com/0807MLN/08071201LW.asp|access-date=4 April 2013|newspaper=Lebanon Wire|date=12 July 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511134105/http://www.lebanonwire.com/0807MLN/08071201LW.asp|archive-date=11 May 2013}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Biography|Algeria|Politics|Lebanon}} *[[Lebanese government of July 2005]] *[[Lebanese government of July 2008]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Foreign Ministers of Lebanon}} {{Authority control}}
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