Fathy El Shazly (born May 21, 1943) Egyptian diplomat and politician, the Director of the Executive Secretariat for the Demining & Development of the North West Coast.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Fathy El Shazly
Director of the Executive Secretariat for the Demining & Development of the North West Coast
Assumed office
2007
Ambassador of Egypt to Turkey
In office
1999–2003
Ambassador of Egypt to Saudi Arabia
In office
1991–1995
Personal details
Born (1943-05-21) May 21, 1943 (age 81)
Cairo, Egypt
Children3
Alma materAin Shams University
ProfessionDiplomat, Politician

Life

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He was born in Cairo to a middle-class family. He was the son of Sheick Abdel Hamid M. El Shazly, professor of Al Hadith at Al Azhar University and Diaa A. Zahran. He graduated in 1964 from the faculty of commerce at Ain Shams University.

Fathy El Shazly is the married father of three sons and grandfather of two girls.

Career

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El Shazly joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 1 June 1965. He served in Egyptian Embassies at Bamako, Caracas, Stockholm and Addis Ababa, where he acted as Egypt's alternate representative to the Organisation of African Unity and to the Economic Commission for Africa, the UN branch for Africa.

He was appointed Ambassador to Saudi Arabia in 1991 and was Assistant Foreign Minister for European Affairs between 1995 and 1999.

He was the first national coordinator for the Egypt Euro/Mediterranean Partnership, between 1996 and 1999. He was Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey from November 1999 to March 2003.

He retired from the diplomatic service in June 2003, but in the fall of 2004 he was made advisor to the Minister of International Cooperation, working on Egypt's relationship with the European Union and the promotion of human rights.

Egypt Mine Action

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In early 2007 he began directing Egypt/UNDP Mine action in the North West Coast of Egypt, working to mitigate the heavy contamination explosive remnants of World War II to open areas for mineral development.

References

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  1. ^ Youtube Fathy El Shazly Interview on Nile TV P1 on YouTube
  2. ^ Youtube Fathy El Shazly Interview on Nile TV P2 on YouTube
  3. ^ "Ambassador Fathy El Shazly on Egypt Mine Action". Archived from the original on 2013-12-30.
  4. ^ Liotta, P. H. (1 January 2003). The Uncertain Certainty: Human Security, Environmental Change, and the Future Euro-Mediterranean. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-0578-8.
  5. ^ Insight Turkey: Quarterly Research and Information Journal with Focus on Turkey. Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Cooperation. 2000.
  6. ^ MEN Economic Weekly. Middle East News Agency. January 1994.