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Arab League confirms Egyptian diplomat Nabil Fahmy as secretary general

  • The 22-member bloc has only had one non-Egyptian secretary general — Tunisian Chedli Klibi in the 1980s — when Egypt was suspended for signing a peace deal with Israel, at the time breaking a regional consensus
  • The Arab League, founded in 1945, is a mostly political forum for Arab countries to discuss and communicate points of consensus
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