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<div>{{Short description|Egyptian diplomat}}<br />
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| native_name = {{nobold|أحمد عصمت عبد المجيد}}<br />
| image = Ahmed Esmat Abd-El-Magid.jpg<br />
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| office = [[Secretary General of the Arab League|5th Secretary-General of the Arab League]]<br />
| term_start = 1 June 1991<br />
| term_end = 1 June 2001<br />
| deputy = <br />
| predecessor = [[Chedli Klibi]]<br />
| successor = [[Amr Moussa]]<br />
| office2 = [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Egypt)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]<br />
| president2 = [[Hosni Mubarak]]<br />
| primeminister2 = {{Unbulleted list|[[Kamal Hassan Ali]]|[[Ali Lutfi Mahmud]]|[[Atef Sedki]]}}<br />
| predecessor2 = [[Kamal Hassan Ali]]<br />
| successor2 = [[Amr Moussa]]<br />
| term_start2 = 17 July 1984<br />
| term_end2 = 1 June 1991<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|3|22|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Alexandria]], [[Kingdom of Egypt|Egypt]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|12|21|1923|3|22|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]<br />
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| nationality = [[Egyptians|Egyptian]]<br />
| party = [[National Democratic Party (Egypt)|National Democratic Party]]<br />
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| alma_mater = [[Alexandria University]] <br/>[[University of Paris]]<br />
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| profession = Diplomat<br />
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'''Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid''' ({{langx|ar|أحمد عصمت عبد المجيد}}&lrm;; 22 March 1923 – 21 December 2013) was an [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] diplomat. He served as the [[Foreign Minister of Egypt]] between 1984 and 1991, and as the [[Secretary General of the Arab League|Secretary-General]] of the [[Arab League]] from 1991 until 2001.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ismat Abdel Majid|url=http://www.alex4all.com/aboutAlex/articl.php?id=24|publisher=Alexandria Governorate|accessdate=25 October 2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101025111143/http://alex4all.com/aboutAlex/articl.php?id=24|archivedate=25 October 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Born in [[Alexandria]] in March 1923,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=poU4AQAAIAAJ&q=Ahmed+Asmat+Abdel-Meguid+1923|title=IBN: Index bio-bibliographicus notorum hominum|date=16 May 2010|publisher=Biblio Verlag|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.net/encyclopedia/icons/2011/6/30/أحمد-عصمت-عبد-المجيد|title=أحمد عصمت عبد المجيد|website=www.aljazeera.net}}</ref> Abdel Meguid received a law degree from [[Alexandria University]] in 1944 before going on to obtain a doctorate of [[international law]] from the [[University of Paris]] in 1947.<ref name=Goldschmidt2000/> He joined the Egyptian foreign ministry in 1950 and worked in several departments, notably the British and French sections. In 1967 he was appointed as Chairman of the [[State Information Service]], a post he held for a year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dostor.org/389591|title=رئيس الهيئة العامة للاستعلامات لـ 'الدستور': خطة لتنوير الشعب خاصة الشباب!|website=جريدة الدستور|date=16 March 2014}}</ref> He became ambassador to [[France]] in 1970, deputy foreign minister in 1970, and Egypt's high representative to the [[United Nations]] in 1972. He served in that position until 1983, and was then foreign minister from 1984 to 1991, when he was elected secretary-general of [[the Arab League]].<ref name="Goldschmidt2000">{{cite book|last=Goldschmidt, Jr.|first=Arthur|title=Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p3J6IS8t74QC&pg=PA5|year=2000|publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers|isbn=978-1-55587-229-8|page=5}}</ref><br />
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He died in [[Cairo]] on 21 December 2013, at the age of 90.<ref>{{cite web|title=Former Arab League secretary-general Esmat Abdel-Meguid dies |url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/89719/Egypt/Politics-/Former-Arab-League-secretarygeneral-Esmat-AbdelMeg.aspx|publisher=Ahram Online|accessdate=23 December 2013}}</ref><br />
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