Nabil Elaraby

Nabil Elaraby (2015)

Nabil Elaraby ( Arabic نبيل عبد الله العربي, DMG Nabīl ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿArabī ; * March 15, 1935 in Cairo ) is an Egyptian lawyer . After the fall of Egyptian President Husni Mubarak , he was Foreign Minister in Essam Sharaf's cabinet from March to May 2011 and a judge at the International Court of Justice from 2001 to 2006 . From May 2011 to March 2016 he was General Secretary of the Arab League .

Life

Nabil Elaraby graduated to 1955 at the University of Cairo and then at New York University , where 1969 he an LL.M. acquired and two years later received his doctorate . In 1978 he was one of the Egyptian lawyers who had negotiated the Camp David Agreement with Israel .

From 1991 to 1999 Elaraby was Egyptian Ambassador to the United Nations , from 1994 to 2004 he was a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations. In 1990 Elaraby was appointed judge at the Arbitration Court of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting States , and from 1999 to 2001 he served as commissioner at the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva . From 2001 to 2006 he was a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague . Nabil Elaraby has been a partner at the law firm Zaki Hashem & Partners in Cairo since 2008 .

During the revolution in Egypt in early 2011, Elaraby was one of the mediators between the demonstrators and the Mubarak regime. After Mubarak was overthrown, Elaraby was appointed as successor to Ahmed Aboul Gheits as the new Foreign Minister of the Egyptian interim government on March 6, 2011 . Under Elaraby, Egypt pursued a policy of rapprochement with the Iranian government and tried to loosen the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip by opening the border crossing to Rafah .

On May 15, 2011 Nabil Elaraby was elected as the new Secretary General of the Arab League. He succeeded the Egyptian Amr Musa , who had renounced another term. Qatar had withdrawn its candidate for the office of general secretary. Observers saw Elaraby's election as a signal to strengthen the Arab League. He was succeeded by Ahmed Aboul Gheit in March 2016 .

Web links

Commons : Nabil Elaraby - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Homepage of the International Court of Arbitration with information on the case "The Government of Sudan / The Sudan People's Liberation Movement / Army (Abyei Arbitration)", in which Elaraby is acting as party representative

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b The Washington Post : New Egypt foreign minister likely to be tougher on Israel , March 6, 2011.
↑ Focus : Last Mubarak follower left government , March 6, 2011.
↑ Der Tagesspiegel : Egypt Foreign Policy U-Turns in Cairo , May 4, 2011.
↑ Der Standard : Egypt's Foreign Minister Becomes Secretary General , May 15, 2011.
^ NRZ: Egyptian Minister for Arab League (May 16, 2011)

personal data
SURNAME	Elaraby, Nabil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	al-Arabi, Nabil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Egyptian lawyer, judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague (2001-2006)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cairo

[Washington_Post-1] A ^b The Washington Post : New Egypt foreign minister likely to be tougher on Israel , March 6, 2011.

[2] Focus : Last Mubarak follower left government , March 6, 2011.

[3] Der Tagesspiegel : Egypt Foreign Policy U-Turns in Cairo , May 4, 2011.

[4] Der Standard : Egypt's Foreign Minister Becomes Secretary General , May 15, 2011.

[5] NRZ: Egyptian Minister for Arab League (May 16, 2011)