Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid

Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid (22 March 1923 – 21 December 2013) was an Egyptian diplomat: ambassador to France, foreign minister of Egypt from 1984 to 1991, and the fifth Secretary-General of the Arab League from 1991 to 2001. There is no Urdu Wikipedia article about him; this museum's Urdu page is written from the English and Arabic articles. ^{1 2}

He was born in Alexandria in March 1923 and studied at Alexandria University and the University of Paris, where he took a doctorate in international law. As a young diplomat he was part of the Egyptian delegation that negotiated with France in 1957 on resuming the relations broken by the Suez war, reaching the Zurich agreement. He later served as Egypt's ambassador to France. The Arabic article records that his father, Muhammad Fahmi Abdel-Meguid, founded the Islamic Mowasat charitable association in Alexandria — a fact about his family, recorded here as background. ^{1 2}

He became foreign minister on 17 July 1984 under President Hosni Mubarak, serving under three prime ministers. On 1 June 1991 he succeeded the Tunisian Chedli Klibi as Secretary-General of the Arab League, holding the office for a decade that covered the aftermath of the Gulf War. On 1 June 2001 he was succeeded in both of his great offices by the same man, Amr Moussa. ¹

He died in Cairo on Saturday 21 December 2013, aged 90; his funeral was held the following day. ^{1 2}

Neither article, in text or infobox, makes any statement about his own religion; the Arabic article's detail about his father's charitable association is family background. The only attestation anywhere is a single structured value on his Wikidata item, Islam in general. Under this museum's rule — one structured value never attests a faith — his faith is recorded as unknown, and the reading is preserved in his data record for the founder's ruling. ³

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