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{{Short description|Tunisian diplomat and politician}}
[[File:Habib Boularès.jpg|thumb|Habib Boularès]]
'''Habib Boularès''' ({{langx|ar|الحبيب بولعراس|al-Ḥabīb Bū al-Aʻrās }}) (29 July 1933 – 18 April 2014) was a [[Tunisia]]n diplomat and politician.<ref name="LT">{{cite web|url=http://www.leaders.com.tn/article/deces-de-habib-boulares?id=13868 |title=Décès de Habib Boularès |date=April 18, 2014 |publisher=[[Leaders Tunisie]] |language=French |access-date=April 19, 2014 |archive-date=April 19, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419014111/http://www.leaders.com.tn/article/deces-de-habib-boulares?id=13868 |df= }}</ref>

== Biography ==
He first entered the cabinet in 1970 as Minister of Culture and Information, serving in that post until 1971. He served as the [[Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia]] from 1990 to 1991, [[defense minister|Minister of Defense]] for a brief period in 1991, and as [[President of the Chamber of Deputies of Tunisia|Speaker Chamber of Deputies]] from 1991 to 1997. He served as Secretary-General of the [[Arab-Maghreb Union]] from 2002 to 2006, and was succeeded by [[Habib Ben Yahia]].<ref name="Pana">{{cite news|url= http://www.panapress.com/newslatf.asp?code=eng102711&dte=08/01/2006|title=Tunisia's Habib Ben Yahia becomes new UMA head|date=2006-01-08|work=Panapress|accessdate=2008-07-16}} {{Dead link|date=December 2014}}</ref> 

== Personal life ==
Boularès died on April 18, 2014, in [[Paris]] at the age 80, following a long illness.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Décès de Habib Boularès |url=https://www.leaders.com.tn/article/13868-deces-de-habib-boulares |website=leaders}}</ref> His funeral took place on April 23 at the Sidi Abdelaziz cemetery in [[La Marsa]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Memoriam: L’écrivain et ancien ministre Habib Boulares n’est plus |url=https://www.kapitalis.com/archive/190-politik/21836-in-memoriam-l-ecrivain-et-ancien-ministre-habib-boulares-n-est-plus.html |website=kapitalis}}</ref>

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