Arab League Chief to cast vote for UN envoy to Libya

CAIRO – 18 June 2017: Arab League Chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit travelled Sunday morning from Cairo International airport to New York for the United Nations Security Council’s session on Tuesday voting for a new UN envoy to Libya.

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres named the former Lebanese Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh as the new U.N. envoy to Libya, replacing German diplomat Martin Kobler, who has served as the U.N. representative in Libya since November 2015. The Security Council must agree by consensus on the appointment of special envoys, Reuters reported.


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Salameh is a professor of International Relations and Conflict Resolution at Sciences-Po in Paris. He was a Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General (2003-2006) and Political Advisor to the UN Mission in Iraq (2003). From 2000-2003, he was Lebanon’s Minister of Culture, in charge of national heritage and arts and Chairman of the Arab Fund For Arts and Culture (AFAC), according to AFAC website.