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Egypt’s Aboul-Gheit voted new Secretary-General of Arab League

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CAIRO: Former foreign minister of Egypt, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit has been named as the new secretary-general of the Arab League, the regional organization of Arab countries.

The decision to appoint Aboul-Gheit as the new chief came after the outgoing secretary-general Nabil Al-Araby declined a second 5-year term.

Aboul-Gheit is, now, the eighth secretary general of the League since it was founded in 1945.

The meeting took place in Cairo, at a time when the regional body faces multiple wars and a widening jihadist threat.

However, Qatar showed reservations over appointment of Aboul-Gheit due to his ‘hostile positions’ towards Doha.

According to Article 12 of the Arab League Pact, the secretary-general is to be appointed upon the vote of two-thirds of the member states, currently 21 after the suspension of Syria’s membership over its crisis.

Aboul-Gheit served as Egypt’s foreign minister from 2004 until 2011.

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M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.