{"id":408164,"date":"2026-03-30T14:15:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=408164"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:16:15","slug":"arab-league-names-new-secretary-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-league-names-new-secretary-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab League names new secretary-general"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cairo \u2013 The Council of the League of Arab States unanimously approved, on Sunday (29), the nomination of former Egyptian foreign minister Nabil Fahmy as the organization\u2019s new secretary-general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nominated by his country, Fahmy still needs to be formally approved at the next Arab League Summit in Saudi Arabia, attended by the countries\u2019 leaders. He will take office for a five-year term on July 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fahmy will succeed Ahmed Aboul Gheit, whose second term ends on June 30, the Saudi state news agency SPA said. The organization represents the 22 Arab countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was made at the 165<sup>th<\/sup> meeting of Arab foreign ministers, held by videoconference under Bahrain\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read also<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/alzeben-takes-his-experience-to-arab-league\/\">Alzeben takes his experience to Arab League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*With information from AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reproduction of this content is prohibited<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-407506\">\u00a9Louisa Gouliamaki\/AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday (29), Arab foreign ministers approved the nomination of former Egyptian foreign minister Nabil Fahmy to head the League of Arab States starting in July. The decision still needs to be endorsed at the organization\u2019s next summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":407506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[10044,50638,12363,9583,26760,48455,56319,11057],"class_list":{"0":"post-408164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs","8":"tag-arab-countries-en","9":"tag-arab-league-2","10":"tag-arabes-en","11":"tag-arabs-en","12":"tag-egito-en-2","13":"tag-egypt-2","14":"tag-nabil-fahmy","15":"tag-paises-arabes-ar"},"wps_subtitle":"On Sunday (29), Arab foreign ministers approved the nomination of former Egyptian foreign minister Nabil Fahmy to head the League of Arab States starting in July. The decision still needs to be endorsed at the organization\u2019s next summit.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}