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Riyad al-Malki, an independent, serves as minister of foreign affairs in the thirteenth Palestinian government. He was appointed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas and on May 19, 2009 he was officially sworn in. He was also minister of foreign affairs and minister of information in the Palestinian provisional government, and held these positions in the emergency government when it was formed in June 2007.
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Al-Malki was born in 1955 and holds a PhD in civil engineering. He worked at the engineering department at Birzeit University. In 1978 he became head of the Civil department. He founded the Panorama Center and was awarded the European Peace Prize in 2000 and the Italian Peace Prize in 2005. He is coordinator of the Arab Program to Support and Develop Democracy, an alliance of civil society institutions.
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