Cabinet approves diplomatic appointments

Cabinet on Monday approved the diplomatic appointments and tackled an agenda of 49 items and other emergency issues, including the situations after the eruption of the Israeli-Iranian war.

Below are the names of the appointed Lebanese ambassadors:

- UAE: Tarek Mneimneh

- Paris: Rabih al-Shaer

- New York: Ahmad Arafa

- Washington: Nada Hamadeh

- UNESCO: Hind Darwish

- Vatican: Fadi Assaf

- Turkey: Munir Anouti

- Cyprus: Jean Mrad

- Geneva: Caroline Ziadeh

- Vienna: Cynthia Chidiac

- Kuwait: Ghadi Khoury

- South Korea: Wael Hashem

- Spain: Hani Chemaitelly

- Moscow: Bashir Azzam

- Ottawa: Bashir Tawk

- Saudi Arabia: Ali Karanouh

Abdel Sattar Issa was meanwhile named as the Foreign Ministry’s secretary-general, Ibrahim Assaf as the Ministry’s political affairs director and Fadi Ziadeh as the Ministry’s financial affairs director.