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Palestine’s Permanent Representative at the Arab League Mohammed al-Aklouk requested an extraordinary Arab summit on the Israeli aggression against Palestinians, at the invitation of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Aklouk said, in a statement published by Wafa, that Palestine’s request comes after coordination with Saudi Arabia in its capacity as the chair of the current 32nd session of the Arab Summit.

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said it was shameful that the Security Council failed to vote in favor of the two resolutions on the situation in Gaza. Aboul Gheit stressed that the failure embodies a lack of genuine international will to end the Israeli military operation in Gaza despite the flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and the targeting civilians. On Thursday, the Sec-Gen said the failure to reach a Resolution puts the Security Council's credibility...

One highly probable change will be the election of Lawrence Wong as the 1st Assistant Sec-Gen, in the subsequent election after the CEC election.

A Nigerian Professor of Anatomy and consultant reproductive endocrinologist, Oladapo Ashiru, has been elected as the Secretary-General of the

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