The race to choose a replacement for Arab League Secretary General Amr Mousa who is likely to leave at the end of his mandate has begun, a Qatari newspaper has reported. Quoting unnamed Arab diplomats, Al Watan daily said that the disagreement over whether the secretary general should be an Egyptian national would lead...
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The rotation of the post of Arab League secretary general among the member countries is “a perfectly sensible” move that should be adopted by the Arab states, a senior Algerian official said. “The nature of regional and international organizations comprised of several national members is to rotate posts,” Abdelaziz Belkhadem, the personal representative of...
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Mussa Sadr Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri has called for the boycott of the Arab summit next month in Libya, a country that Shiites blame for the disappearance of top scholar Imam Mussa Sadr 31 years ago. “I personally stand with the boycott, but only President Michel Suleiman can decide on Lebanon’s participation in...
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