Abuzed Omar Dorda
| Abuzed Dorda أبو زيد عمر دوردة |
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| Prime Minister of Libya | |
| In office 7 October 1990 – 29 January 1994 |
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| Preceded by | Umar Mustafa al-Muntasir |
| Succeeded by | Abdul Majid al-Qa′ud |
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| Born | 4 April 1944 Rhebat, British Military Administration of Tripolitania (now Libya) |
Abuzed Omar Dorda (Arabic: أبو زيد عمر دوردة) (born 4 April 1944) was General Secretary of the People's Committee (Prime Minister) of Libya from 7 October 1990 to 29 January 1994, and as Libya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1997 to 2003.
Dorda entered politics as Governor of Misrata District in 1970, serving in that capacity until 1972. Next, he served as Minister of Information and Culture until 1974, and as Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, until 1976. In 1990, he became Prime Minister and in 1997 he became Libya's Permanent Representative at the UN.
On 12 April 2009, it was reported that Dorda had been appointed to head the Libyan intelligence service, replacing Moussa Koussa.[1]
On 31 March 2011 it was reported that he had been in Tunisia, awaiting a flight out of there, in an attempt to defect Gaddafi's government,[2] and on the background of the Libyan civil war. He was a part of Gaddafi's inner circle.[3] He was arrested by NTC forces on 11 September 2011.
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| Kingdom of Libya (1951–1969) |
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| Libyan Arab Republic (1969–1977) |
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| Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977–2011) |
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| Libya (2011–2013) |
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| State of Libya (2013–present) |
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