Shafik Wazzan

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox officeholder Template:Politics of Lebanon Shafik Al-Wazzan (Template:Langx, 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Biography

After political strife had left Lebanon without a government for 137 days, Wazzan was urged into office.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He oversaw the withdrawal of Palestinian guerillas from Beirut in 1982.

Wazzan died in 1999 at the age of 74. He was survived by a son and a daughter.

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