Egypt will re-nominate Ahmed Aboul-Gheit as Secretary-General of the Arab League (AL) for a second term, Egyptian Presidential spokesman, Bassam Rady, said on Saturday.
President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi sent messages to Arab leaders to express Egypt’s intention to re-nominate Aboul-Gheit as the AL chief for another five years, Rady said in a statement.
He added that Cairo was looking forward to the leaders’ support for the nomination.
The spokesman explained that the re-nomination comes within the framework of the great interest that Egypt attaches to the work of the AL, which serves Arab peoples.
This characterised the role of Aboul-Gheit during his first term of wise management for the joint Arab action, Rady added.
The first term of the 78-year-old secretary-general will end this June.
He once served as Egypt’s foreign minister from July 2004 to March 2011.
Xinhua
