Mohamed Lamine Debaghine
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Mohamed Lamine Debaghine 🇩🇿

محمد الأمين دباغين (Known as "Lamine Debaghine")
Physician, Nationalist Leader, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the GPRA
Born Jan 24, 1917 🇩🇿 Hussein Dey, Algeria
Passed Away Jan 20, 2003 Algiers, Algeria
Lifespan 85 years old
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"Algeria has never surrendered its sovereignty; we are not reclaiming a gift, we are reclaiming our birthright."

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Doctor of medicine, brilliant parliamentarian, and foundational diplomat who served as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA).

Biographical Record

A practicing medical doctor from the University of Algiers, Mohamed Lamine Debaghine joined the Algerian People's Party (PPA) in 1939 and led the clandestine nationalist movement while Messali Hadj was imprisoned. Elected to the French National Assembly in 1946, he used the podium of Paris to demand immediate national independence.

As head of foreign affairs in the GPRA from 1958, he internationalized the Algerian question across the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement, and Asian and African capitals, securing diplomatic recognition for the liberation struggle.

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El Alia Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria
GPS: 36.7212, 3.1678
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