Monday, May 16, 2011

Egyptian Foreign Minister is elected as head of the Arab League

Cairo. .- The Egyptian foreign minister, Nabil El-Arabi, was today unanimously elected successor as secretary general Amr Moussa of the Arab League at a special meeting in Cairo. "I take this responsibility difficult while the Arab world faces many problems and find it hard to say that I will follow the same path of Amr Moussa, he has achieved in the last ten years to increase the importance of the Arab League," said El Arabi.

The Egyptian foreign minister was the only candidate who was running for the post after Qatar this week to withdraw its candidate, Abdel Rahman al Attiyah, during the extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers of the pan-Arab organization for selecting the future chief the organization.

The Arabi, who after accepting the position immediately leave the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, acknowledged that the responsibility is more difficult than assumed and agreed to follow the footsteps of Musa. "The joint Arab work goes through problems and we must unite and find solutions for them," he added.

The Arabi, 76, was Egypt's representative to the UN from 1991 to 1999 and held other diplomatic posts in Geneva and India. Between 2001 and 2006 was judge of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. He graduated in Law at Cairo University and a doctorate in legal studies from the University of New York.

Before being appointed foreign minister, on 6 March and was director of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration. Egypt replaced this afternoon, the candidate who had initially presented, Mostafa to Fiqi by El Arabi. Arab League sources told Efe that this decision was the lack of agreement on the figure of Al Fiqi to be considered a member of the regime of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

Musa, who had been in the position of secretary general since March 27, 2001, is removed from the pan-Arab organization to devote himself to his candidacy for President of Egypt, where he is scheduled to hold elections next September.

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