Lebanon’s Charles Malik Dies at 81
Charles Malik, a former Lebanese foreign minister, ex-president of the U.N. General Assembly, and one-time ambassador to Washington, died Monday in Beirut.
Malik, 81, a Greek Orthodox fundamentalist Christian, was Lebanon’s ambassador to the United States in the early 1950s and was foreign minister from 1956 to 1958.
He was a Lebanese delegate to the United Nations from 1945 to 1954 and was the 1958-59 General Assembly president. After Lebanon’s civil war broke out in 1975, his political career was limited to dealing with Christian affairs.
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