Ahmed Aboul Gheit
| Ahmed Aboul Gheit أحمد أبو الغيط |
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| 8th Secretary-General of the Arab League | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2016 |
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| Deputy | Ahmed Ben Helli |
| Preceded by | Nabil Elaraby |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 11 July 2004 – 6 March 2011 |
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| Prime Minister |
Ahmed Nazif Ahmed Shafik |
| Preceded by | Ahmad Maher |
| Succeeded by | Nabil Elaraby |
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12 June 1942 Cairo, Egypt |
| Alma mater | Ain Shams University |
Ahmed Aboul-Gheit (Arabic: أحمد أبو الغيط, also: Abu al-Ghayt, Abu El Gheyt, etc.) (born 12 June 1942) is an Egyptian diplomat who has been Secretary-General of the Arab League since July 2016. Aboul-Gheit served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt from 11 July 2004 to 6 March 2011; previously he was Egypt's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. In December 2005, he began mediating the Chad-Sudan conflict. He was succeeded as Minister of Foreign Affairs by ICJ judge Nabil Elaraby in March 2011, following the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. He was elected as Secretary-General of the Arab League in March 2016.
Born in Heliopolis in Cairo on 12 June 1942, Aboul Gheit was originally from the city of Port Said. He started his career as Third Secretary at the Embassy of Cyprus; subsequently he was First Secretary for Egypt's Ambassador to the United Nations, Political Consultant at the Egyptian Embassy in the Soviet Union in 1984, and Ambassador of Egypt to Italy, Macedonia and San Marino. In 1999 he was the head of Egypt's permanent delegation to the United Nations.
Regarding the Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy in 2006, he said "this was a very unfortunate statement and it is a statement that shows that there is a lack of understanding of real Islam. And because of this we are hopeful that such statements and such positions would not be stated in order to not allow tension and distrust and recriminations to brew between the Muslim as well as the west."
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