Cabinet approves diplomatic appointments
by Naharnet Newsdesk 16 June 2025, 14:34
Cabinet on Monday approved the diplomatic appointments and tackled an agenda of 49 items and other emergency issues, including the situations after the eruption of the Israeli-Iranian war.
Below are the names of the appointed Lebanese ambassadors:
- UAE: Tarek Mneimneh
- Paris: Rabih al-Shaer
- New York: Ahmad Arafa
- Washington: Nada Hamadeh
- UNESCO: Hind Darwish
- Vatican: Fadi Assaf
- Turkey: Munir Anouti
- Cyprus: Jean Mrad
- Geneva: Caroline Ziadeh
- Vienna: Cynthia Chidiac
- Kuwait: Ghadi Khoury
- South Korea: Wael Hashem
- Spain: Hani Chemaitelly
- Moscow: Bashir Azzam
- Ottawa: Bashir Tawk
- Saudi Arabia: Ali Karanouh
Abdel Sattar Issa was meanwhile named as the Foreign Ministry's secretary-general, Ibrahim Assaf as the Ministry's political affairs director and Fadi Ziadeh as the Ministry's financial affairs director.
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