Secretary General's Corner

Arab League chooses Egyptian as new leader (May 15th, 2011)
The 22-member Arab organization endorsed Egypt's current foreign minister, Nabil Elaraby, to replace Amr Moussa, whose term expired and who is planning to run for president of Egypt. Moussa, 74, held the Arab League post for a decade.

About Secretary General Nabil Elaraby
Nabil Elaraby is "a graduate of the Cairo University law department, El-Arabi also has a PhD degree, in international law from New York University. He joined the foreign service in the 1950s and served in several bilateral and multilateral posts, from junior diplomatic officer to ambassador and permanent representative.

In 1991, El-Arabi was summoned for consultations to replace Essmat Abdel-Meguid, who was nominated for the Arab League, as foreign minister. The job went instead to Amr Moussa.

Twenty years later, the job came to El-Arabi who had retired from diplomatic service in 2001 after being  elected a judge at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, a job he kept for 4 years. 

 And after less than four months in Egypt's top diplomatic post , El-Arabi, who was in the 1970s Moussa's boss, is taking over yet another job from the prominent Egyptian diplomat: secretary-general of the Arab League. Both he and Moussa joked about this during a foreign ministers meeting at the Arab League on Sunday 15 May, the day of El-Arabi’s election to the post of secretary-general."

from: http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/12282/Egypt/Politics-/Meet-Nabil-ElArabi-The-new-head-of-the-Arab-League.aspx

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