(Arabic: عبد العزيز بوتفليقة‎‎ ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Būtaflīka [ʕaːbd lʕziz butfliqa]) is an Algerian politician who has been the fifth President of Algeria since 1999. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1963 to 1979. As President, he presided over the end of the bloody Algerian Civil War in 2002, and he ended emergency rule in February 2011 amidst regional unrest. He has also served as president of the United Nations General Assembly. In November 2012, he surpassed Houari Boumediene as the longest-serving president of Algeria.