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Nabil el-Araby Nabil el-Araby
Name: Nabil Elaraby / Nabil el-Araby
Born: 15 March 1935, Egypt.
Position: Secretary-General of the Arab League, elected 15 May 2011
Career: Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, 1978-1981; Permanent Representative to the UN Office at Geneva, 1987-1991; Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, 1991-1999, Member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations, 1994-2004; President of the Security Council, 1996, Vice-President of the UN General Assembly, 1993, 1994 and 1997; Commissioner at the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva, 1999-2001; Member of the International Court of Justice, 2001-2006; Foreign Minister of Egypt in Essam Sharaf’s government, March-June 2011.
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- Thursday 21 February 2013
February 20, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – Egypt intends to soon ratify the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and utilise a loophole that allows it to avoid apprehending Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir, an (...)
- Monday 16 May 2011
May 15, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Egypt’s current foreign minister Nabil Elaraby has been elected as secretary-general of the Arab League after his Qatari competitor Abdul Rahman bin Hamad al-Attiyah withdrew from the race. Nabil Elaraby of (...)
- Tuesday 22 May 2012
May 21, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government is expecting to get important Arab support at a ministerial meeting to be held next month to discuss ways to boost peace and development in the troubled east African country. Sudan’s (...)
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