Baghdad / Nina / The Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to France, Dr. Wadih Batti, announced today, Thursday, that Iraq has obtained the position of Director-General of the Arab World Institute in Paris.
The ambassador indicated, according to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that the head of the institute, Jack Lang, signed the letter of assignment for the candidate of Iraq and the Arab League Council, the poet and writer Ahmed Shawqi Abdel Amir Al-Hamdani.
He stressed the great efforts made by the Iraqi embassy in Paris, with continuous follow-up by the Prime Minister, Engineer Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, and under the direct supervision of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fuad Hussein, which culminated in reaching a complete Arab consensus on choosing the Iraqi candidate.
The ambassador expressed his thanks to the dean and members of the Council of Arab Ambassadors in Paris for giving confidence to the Republic of Iraq’s candidate for this position.
Dr. Wadih Batti confirmed that Iraq is taking over the management of the institute for the first time since its founding in the 1980s by former French President Jacques Chirac, which is supervised by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It is worth noting that Ahmed Shawqi Abdel Amir Al-Hamdani is a cultural and literary figure and has a number of books in Arabic and French, in addition to being awarded the Knight Medal by the French Ministry of Culture for the year 2023./End 9
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