Shafik Wazzan

Prime Minister of LebanonIn office
25 October 1980 – 30 April 1984PresidentÉlias Sarkis
Bachir Gemayel
Amine GemayelPreceded byTakieddin el-SolhSucceeded byRashid Karami Personal detailsBorn(1925-01-16)16 January 1925
Beirut, LebanonDied8 July 1999(1999-07-08) (aged 74)
Beirut, LebanonPolitical partyIndependentChildren2

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Shafik Al-Wazzan (Arabic: شفيق الوزان, January 16, 1925 – July 8, 1999) was a Lebanese politician who served as the 27th Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1980 until 1984. In December 1991, Wazzan was wounded when a car bomb exploded in the Beirut neighborhood of Basta Al Fouka (where he lived) as he was passing through in an armored car.^[1]

Biography

After political strife had left Lebanon without a government for 137 days, Wazzan was urged into office.^[2] He oversaw the withdrawal of Palestinian guerillas from Beirut in 1982. The next year he successfully negotiated for Israel to withdraw from Lebanon.

Wazzan had a son (Dr. Wassim Al Wazzan) and a daughter. He died in 1999 at the age of 74.

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Preceded by Takieddin as-Solh	Prime Minister of Lebanon 25 October 1980 – 30 April 1984	Succeeded by Rashid Karami