Nasser Al Qudwa ( ar, ناصر القدوة, links=no), also spelled Nasser Al-Kidwa,
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Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, (Retrieved 11 Jan 2015). (born 1953), is the nephew of the late
Yasser Arafat.
Early life and education
Al Qudwa was born in 1953. He attended
Cairo University, graduating with a degree in dentistry in 1979.
Then became an executive member of the
Palestinian Red Crescent
The Palestine Red Crescent Society ( ar,
جمعية الهلال الأحمر الفلسطيني, PRCS) was founded in 1968, by Fathi Arafat, Yasser Arafat's brother. It is a humanitarian organization that is part of the International Red Cro ...
shortly after.
Career
Al Qudwa joined
Fatah
Fatah ( ar, فتح '), formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, is a Palestinian nationalist social democratic political party and the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and ...
in 1969. He became president of the
General Union of Palestinian Students in 1974. He is also a central-committee member of Fatah.
Qudwa represented his uncle
Yasser Arafat and the
Palestine Liberation Organization
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; ar, منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية, ') is a Palestinian nationalism, Palestinian nationalist political and militant organization founded in 1964 with the initial purpose of establ ...
as an unofficial observer in the
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...
in 1987, then as a permanent observer in 1991.
In 2005, he was succeeded by
Riyad H. Mansour, when he became
Foreign Affairs Minister In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The entit ...
in the
Palestinian Authority Government of February 2005. Nasser served as United Nations Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan in the
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Al Qudwa was appointed deputy to
Kofi Annan, then special envoy to Syria for the
U.N.
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and
Arab League
The Arab League ( ar, الجامعة العربية, ' ), formally the League of Arab States ( ar, جامعة الدول العربية, '), is a regional organization in the Arab world, which is located in Northern Africa, Western Africa, E ...
in March 2012.
He was responsible for the contacts with Syrian opposition groups.
In 2014, Al Qudwa resigned from his position as U.N. Deputy Mediator on Syria.
Personal life
A current resident of New York City,
Biographies of Palestinian political leaders
Middle East Reference. al-Qudwa is the head of the Yasser Arafat Foundation.
See also
* Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
*Foreign relations of Palestine
The foreign relations of the State of Palestine have been conducted since the establishment of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964. In November 1988, the PLO's Palestinian National Council declared the independence of the S ...
References
External links
* by Leon Charney on The Leon Charney Report
*
1953 births
Living people
Foreign ministers of the Palestinian National Authority
Palestinian diplomats
Fatah members
Permanent Observers of Palestine to the United Nations
Central Committee of Fatah members
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