Nabil Elaraby نبيل العربي |
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7th Secretary-General of the Arab League | |
In office 1 July 2011 – 1 July 2016 |
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Deputy | Samir Nasibi |
Preceded by | Amr Moussa |
Succeeded by | Ahmed Aboul Gheit |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 6 March 2011 – 1 June 2011 |
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Prime Minister | Essam Sharaf |
Preceded by | Ahmed Aboul Gheit |
Succeeded by | Mohamed Orabi |
Ambassador to the United Nations | |
In office 20 May 1991 – 20 May 1995 |
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President | Hosni Mubarak |
Preceded by | Amr Moussa |
Succeeded by | Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid |
Personal details | |
Born |
Cairo, Egypt |
15 May 1935
Alma mater |
Cairo University New York University |
Religion | Islam |
Nabil Elaraby (Arabic: نبيل العربي; born 15 March 1935) is an Egyptian diplomat who was Secretary-General of the Arab League from July 2011 to July 2016. Previously, he was Foreign Minister of Egypt in Essam Sharaf's government from March to June 2011.
Elaraby was born on 15 March 1935. He holds a J.S.D. (1971) and an LL.M. (1969) from New York University School of Law and a law degree from Cairo University's Faculty of Law (1955).
Elaraby is a partner at Zaki Hashem & Partners in Cairo, specializing in negotiations and arbitration.
Elaraby was Legal Adviser and Director in the Legal and Treaties Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1976 to 1978 and then Ambassador to India from 1981 to 1983; he then returned to his previous post at the Foreign Ministry from 1983 to 1987.
He was Legal Adviser to the Egyptian delegation to the Camp David Middle East peace conference in 1978, Head of the Egyptian delegation to the Taba negotiations from 1985 to 1989, and Agent of the Egyptian Government to the Egyptian-Israeli arbitration tribunal (Taba dispute) from 1986 to 1988.
He was appointed by the Egyptian Minister of Justice on the list of arbitrations in civil and commercial affairs in Egypt in 1995.
In 1968, Elaraby was an Adlai Stevenson Fellow in International Law at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). He was appointed a Special Fellow in International Law at UNITAR in 1973, and was Legal Adviser to the Egyptian delegation to the United Nations Geneva Middle East peace conference from 1973-1975.
Elarby was Egypt's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York from 1978 to 1981, the Permanent Representative to the UN Office at Geneva from 1987 to 1991, the Permanent Representative to the UN in New York from 1991 to 1999, a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations from 1994 to 2004, President of the Security Council in 1996, and Vice-President of the General Assembly in 1993, 1994 and 1997. He was a commissioner at the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva from 1999 to 2001, and a member of the International Court of Justice from 2001 until February 2006.