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| Abdelaziz Bouteflika عبد العزيز بوتفليقة |
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| President of Algeria | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 27 April 1999 |
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| Prime Minister | Smail Hamdani Ahmed Benbitour Ali Benflis Ahmed Ouyahia Abdelaziz Belkhadem Ahmed Ouyahia |
| Preceded by | Liamine Zéroual |
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| Born | 2 March 1937 Oujda, French Morocco |
| Political party | National Liberation Front |
| Spouse(s) | Amal Triki |
| Profession | Civil servant |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Abdelaziz Bouteflika (born March 2, 1937) is an Algerian politician. Since 1999, he is the ninth President of Algeria. He was President at the end of the bloody Algerian Civil War in 2002. He ended emergency rule in February 2011 during Arab Spring.
He has also been president of the United Nations General Assembly.
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Bouteflika in the 1970s with Saddam Hussein and Hafez al-Assad
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the G8 family photo, 2010
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika meets Dmitry Medvedev in the United States, 25 September 2009
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Bouteflika with then President of Russia Vladimir Putin at Houari Boumedienne Airport in Algiers on 10 March 2006.
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika and George W. Bush exchange handshakes (Tōyako Town, on 7 July 2008). With them are President Dmitriy Medvedev, left, and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, right.
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika meets the President of Brazil, Lula da Silva, on a state visit to Brasília, in 2005.
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika meets the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner