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The League of Arab States in a New World Order

Event time: 
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE ), 101 (Auditorium) See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Speaker/Performer: 
H.E.Ambassador Maged Abdelfattah Abdelaziz, Permanent Observer for the League of Arab States at the United Nations
Event description: 

The Global Governance Series and the Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center presents
H.E. Ambassador Maged Abdelfattah Abdelaziz, Permanent Observer for the League of Arab States at the United Nations will deliver a public lecture on “The League of Arab States in a New World Order”

Bio: Ambassador Maged Abdelfattah Abdelaziz presented his letter of appointment as a Permanent Observer for the League of Arab States at the United Nations to UN Secretary-General António Guterres on 15 September, 2017.
A national of Egypt, Mr. Abdelaziz was the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Africa at the level of Under-Secretary-General between 2012 to 2017. Ambassador Abdelaziz was his country’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Organization from 2005 to 2012.Between 1999 and 2005, he was the Diplomatic Adviser to the President of Egypt Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak, and Official Spokesman of the Presidency. From 1997 to 1999 he was Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, having previously served as Political Counsellor in the New York Mission from 1995 to 1997. Among other posts, Mr. Abdelaziz was Director of the Specialized Agencies Department in the Multilateral Sector of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1993 and 1995, and Political Counsellor at the Egypt’s Embassy to the USSR in 1989-1991 and to Russian Federation from 1991 to 1993. He headed the International Organizations Division of the Foreign Ministry’s Legal and Treaties Department from 1987 to 1989. Between 1983 and 1987 he served as Second and then First Secretary at Egypt’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. He joined the diplomatic service in 1979 as a member of the Foreign Ministry’s International Organizations Division, serving there until 1983.
Ambassador. Abdelaziz played a leading role in the establishment of the United Nations Human Rights Council and the Peace-Building Commission as well as the elaboration and adoption of the United Nations Global Counter Terrorism Strategy. He also played an active role in enhancing the United Nations’ role in development, with particular emphasis on the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and enhancing the global response to the special needs of Africa, the Least Developed Countries and the Small Islands Developing States. Mr. Abdelaziz graduated from Ain Shams University School of Law in Cairo in 1973.