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  • The UPM (MU) meets today to appoint a Jordanian as general secretary

    http://www.ennaharonline.com/en/economy/2854.html

    BRUSSELS - The representatives of the Union for the Mediterranean (UPM) met Tuesday in Brussels to agree to support the appointment of a Jordanian as General Secretary, an important step to revive the forum.

    The decision should be taken in the afternoon.

    The Jordanian candidate Ahmad Massa'deh, currently ambassador to Brussels, already has the support of several important countries of the UPM, including French and Egyptian co-presidency.

    Senior officials must agree on a joint recommendation for their foreign ministers, known then to be approved "within two to three weeks," said the diplomatic source.

    The future Secretary-General will be based in Barcelona with Palestinian, Israeli, Turkish and Arab League deputies.


    The appointment of a secretary general should make it possible to prepare the Second Summit of the UPM, provided in June in Barcelona, under the Spanish Presidency of the European Union.

    France and Egypt provide the co-presidency of the UPM, created July 13, 2008 on an idea by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. It has about forty members, including EU countries, Turkey, Israel and Arab countries bordering the Mediterranean.

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    Re: The UPM (MU) meets today to appoint a Jordanian as general secretary

    I still think this could turn out to be the "10" kings" of Daniel 2.....Sarkozy's ( 5 + 5) partnership. This 5 + 5 though really started with the Barcelona Process...so interesting its headquarters was chosen to be Barcelona.

    http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_r.../MR957.ch2.pdf

    Chapter Two
    THE BARCELONA PROCESS AND OTHER
    MEDITERRANEAN INITIATIVES

    During the last decade a number of initiatives have been launched or
    proposed to enhance cooperation in the Mediterranean: the “Five
    plus Five,”

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      Re: The UPM (MU) meets today to appoint a Jordanian as general secretary

      http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/mediterranean.284

      Jordanian ambassador named Mediterranean Union chief

      (BRUSSELS) - Representatives from EU and Mediterranean basin nations on Tuesday backed Jordan's Ahmad Massaadeh to be new head of the Mediterranean Union project, which had stalled amid infighting.


      "When his name was proposed, everyone applauded," a diplomat involved in a meeting in Brussels on the nomination told AFP. The move has to be officially endorsed by foreign ministers in two to three weeks.

      "There's unlikely to be any problem," another official said.

      Massaadeh, the new secretary general of the Union for the Mediterranean (UPM), will be based in Barcelona and have Israeli, Palestinian, Turkish and Arab League deputies.

      He is a lawyer and career diplomat, who has been Jordan's ambassador to the European Union, Belgium, Norway and Luxembourg, as well as the kingdom's representative to NATO since August 2006.

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        Re: The UPM (MU) meets today to appoint a Jordanian as general secretary

        More on the new Sec. General.............

        http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=23125

        AMMAN (JT) - Ahmad Masadeh, the Kingdom's ambassador to the EU, Belgium, Norway and Luxembourg since 2006, was appointed secretary general of the nascent Union for the Mediterranean on Tuesday.

        Masadeh, also the Jordanian Coordinator to the Union for the Mediterranean and Representative to NATO...

        Masadeh said: “We will build on the various achievements we have accomplished thus far in a manner that promises to realise more closeness between the north and south of the Mediterranean.”

        Masadeh, born in Jordan in 1969, holds a PhD from King’s College London. He has several publications in the legal field. He boasts a vast commercial legal background being an attorney and a university professor specialised in international trade, investment and projects. He is also a member of the boards of major companies like Royal Jordanian, the Jordanian national carrier, as well as international institutions like the World Trade Law Association in London and the World Bank International Centre for Settlement of Disputes.

        According to the embassy statement, the union aims to establish a regional cooperation structure that would contribute to achieving peace, stability and growth in the Mediterranean basin, as well as to form comprehensive economic, social and cultural partnerships between European and Mediterranean countries.

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