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Mussa Kussa
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Mussa Kussa

Foreign Minister of Libya
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 March 2009
Preceded by Abdel Rahman Shalgham
Born 1949?
Libya
Mussa Kussa (born c. 1949) is a Libyan political figure and diplomat who has served in the government of Libya as Minister of Foreign Affairs since March 2009. He previously headed the Libyan intelligence agency from 1994 to 2009 and is considered one of the country's most powerful figures.[1]
[edit]Diplomat and intelligence chief

Kussa worked as a security specialist for Libyan embassies in Europe before being appointed as Libya's Ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1980. He was expelled from the United Kingdom later in 1980, after stating his intention to eliminate political opponents of the Libyan government who were living in the UK. Later he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1994 and as the head of the Libyan intelligence agency from 1994 to 2009.[1]
[edit]Foreign minister

On 4 March 2009, Mussa Kussa was designated as Minister of Foreign Affairs, replacing Abdel Rahman Shalgham, in a ministerial reshuffle announced by the Libyan parliament.[1]
In April 2009, Kussa presided over the 28th council meeting of the Arab Maghreb Union (comprising Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia) in the Libyan capital Tripoli.[2]
In an interview published by Al-Sharq al-Awsat on 10 November 2009, Kussa sharply criticized some aspects of Chinese investment in Africa. According to Kussa, it was unacceptable for the Chinese to bring "thousands of Chinese workers to Africa" when Africans themselves needed jobs, and he spoke of "a Chinese invasion of the African continent" that he said "brings to mind the effects that colonialism had on the African continent". Kussa also harshly criticized China's unwillingness to deal with the African Union and its preference for dealing with individual African states, which he said was suggestive of a divide and rule policy. Furthermore, he stressed the importance of political cooperation in addition to economic cooperation, saying that the former was lacking in China's relationship with Africa.[3]