{{Short description|Lebanese lawyer and politician (1936–1992)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Family name hatnote|Abou Hamad|lang=Arabic}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Khalil Abou-Hamad, 1972 (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Abou Hamad in 1972 | office = [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants (Lebanon)|Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants]] | president = [[Suleiman Frangieh]] | prime_minister = [[Saeb Salam]] | predecessor = Nasim Majdalani | successor = [[Khatchig Babikian]] | term_start = 13 October 1970 | term_end = 25 April 1973 | birth_date = 1936 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death year and age|1992|1936}} | death_place = | resting_place = | party = | alma_mater = | spouse = | children = }} '''Khalil Abou Hamad''' (1936–1992) was a Lebanese lawyer who served as the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants (Lebanon)|minister of foreign affairs]] in the period 1970–1973.
==Early life== Abou Hamad was born in 1936.<ref name=amncc>{{cite web|title=Khalyl M. Abouhamad (1936-1992) former Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs |url=http://www.amncc-lawfirm.com/lawyers.aspx|publisher=AMNCC|access-date=24 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209104741/http://www.amncc-lawfirm.com/lawyers.aspx|archive-date=9 December 2021}}</ref> He hailed from a Greek Catholic family.<ref>{{cite news|title=April - The Government of Amin Al Hafez: Confidence Session Not Convened |url=https://monthlymagazine.com/article-desc_731_|access-date=24 December 2021|work=The Magazine|date=9 April 2014|archive-date=24 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211224153756/https://monthlymagazine.com/article-desc_731_}}</ref>
==Career== Abou Hamad was a lawyer by profession and founded a law firm in Beirut.<ref name=amncc/> He was named as the minister of foreign affairs on 13 October 1970 in the cabinet led by [[Prime Minister of Lebanon|Prime Minister]] [[Saeb Salam]], replacing Nassim Majdalani in the post.<ref name=lform>{{cite web|title=Lebanese Foreign Ministers|access-date=24 December 2021|url=https://mfa.gov.lb/english-uat/lebanese-foreign-affairs-ministers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123143238/https://mfa.gov.lb/english-uat/lebanese-foreign-affairs-ministers |publisher=Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs|archive-date=23 November 2021}}</ref> Abou Hamad remained in office until 25 April 1973 when a new cabinet formed, and [[Khatchig Babikian]] was appointed foreign minister.<ref name=lform/>
==Activities and views== When Abou Hamad was serving as foreign minister in December 1970, he announced the neutrality of Lebanon stating that Lebanon would not align with either side in the [[Cold War]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Dan Naor|title=The Power of Neutrality: Lebanon as an Oil Transit Country |journal=[[Middle East Policy]]|date=Spring 2019|volume=26|issue=1|page=133|doi=10.1111/mepo.12405}}</ref> He visited China following the opening of [[National Bank of China]] in Beirut in 1972.<ref name=drr19>{{cite journal|author=David Perez-Des Rosiers|title=A Comparative Analysis of China’s Relations with Lebanon and Syria|journal=Sociology of Islam|year=2019|volume=7|issue=2-3|page=192|doi=10.1163/22131418-00702006}}</ref>
Following the [[Munich massacre|murder]] of the Israeli Olympic athletes by the Palestinian [[Black September Organization|Black September]] militants in Munich in September 1972, Abou Hamad argued that Lebanon would limit the movements of the Palestinians living in the country.<ref>{{cite thesis|author=Brock Dahl|title=The Lebanese-Palestinian Conflict in 1973: The Social (De)Construction of Lebanese Sovereignty|page=47 |url=https://users.ox.ac.uk/~metheses/DahlThesis.pdf|location=[[University of Oxford]]|degree=M.Phil|year=2006}}</ref>
==Later years and death== Abou Hamad was one of the board of trustees members of the Diana Tamari Sabbagh Foundation which was established by Palestinian businessman [[Hasib Sabbagh]] in 1979 following the death of his wife Diana Tamari.<ref>{{cite journal|author=[[Walid Khalidi]]|title=Remembering Hasib Sabbagh (1920––2010)|journal=[[Journal of Palestine Studies]]|year=2010|volume=39|issue=3|page=58|doi=10.1525/jps.2010.XXXIX.3.52}}</ref> Abou Hamad died in 1992.<ref name=amncc/>
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==External links== {{Foreign Ministers of Lebanon}} {{Authority control}}
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