<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">With deep sorrow and grief, the Council of Ministers of the Arab Republic of Egypt mourned Ambassador Nabil Elaraby, former Secretary-General of the League of Arab States and former Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, who passed away at the age of 89 after a long struggle with illness. </p><figure class="image"><img src="https://www.aljazeera.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bd85d626-bb6a-45cc-bacc-e79147d7adc4.jpeg?resize=686%2C513&quality=80" alt="epa02831797 Newly appointed Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby gestures during a press conference at the Arab League headquarter in Cairo, Egypt, 19 July 2011. According to local media sources, Elaraby who was in Syria 13 July, plans to continue visiting Arab countries. EPA/KHALED ELFIQI"></figure><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl(187, 48%, 51%);">Death of Nabil El Arabi</span> </h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://cnn-arabic-images.cnn.io/cloudinary/image/upload/w_1920,c_scale,q_auto/cnnarabic/2024/08/26/images/275976.jpg" alt="Death of Nabil Elaraby, former Secretary-General of the Arab League"></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The first to announce the news of the death was the former Egyptian ambassador to the State of Qatar, Mr. “Mohamed Morsi”, who announced the news through a post he published on the social networking site “Facebook”, in which he said: “Today, Egyptian diplomacy lost one of its greatest men, Professor Dr. Minister Nabil Al-Arabi. We lost a distinguished school in diplomacy, international law, and the art of negotiation.”</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also mourned the passing of Nabil Elaraby, describing him as "one of the pillars of Egyptian diplomacy and its shining symbols throughout the ages."</p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl(187, 48%, 51%);">The most important information about the late Nabil El Arabi</span> </h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/ws/640/cpsprodpb/a4c6/live/9abab750-63d0-11ef-b43e-6916dcba5cbf.jpg.webp" alt="Nabil Al Arabi"></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Born in March 1935, he graduated from the Faculty of Law, Cairo University, and obtained a Juris Doctorate from New York University School of Law. He began his career as a legal advisor to the Egyptian delegation at the Middle East Peace Conference at Camp David in 1978, where he played a key role in the sensitive negotiations between Egypt and Israel at the time.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Al-Arabi then served as Egypt's ambassador to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://news.sbisiali.com/news/article/hani-el-behairy-is-the-first-egyptian-in-the-official-competition-of-india">India</a> from 1981 to 1983, was appointed permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva from 1987 to 1991, and moved to New York from 1991 to 1999.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> His career continued in international representation <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://news.sbisiali.com/news/article/with-a-clean-six-goal-victory-over-egypt-morocco-achieves-its-first-bronze-medal-in-football">for Egypt</a> , where he served as a judge at the International Court of Justice between 2001 and 2006, where he was one of the team of judges who issued a ruling in June 2004, condemning the separation wall built by Israel and considering it illegal.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> After the January revolution that toppled former Egyptian President <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%8A+%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83&wprov=acrw1_0">Hosni Mubarak</a> , Al-Arabi assumed the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs, and then became Secretary-General of the Arab League in <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88&wprov=acrw1_0">May</a> 2011 until mid-2016.</p>