New Palestinian Ambassador to Lisbon aims to strengthen relations with Portugal

New Palestinian Ambassador to Lisbon aims to strengthen relations with Portugal

The new Palestinian Ambassador to Lisbon, Rawan Tarek Sulaiman, stated today in brief remarks to Lusa news agency that she intends to strengthen relations with Portugal “in all domains,” based on respect for international law.

Rawan Sulaiman, who presented her credentials (signed by the leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas) on September 23 to the Portuguese President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, had been posted in the Netherlands since 2017 and replaces Nabil Abouznaid, who had been in Portugal also since 2017.

Declining, for now, to grant interviews about the Palestinian situation in particular and the Middle East in general, arguing it is “still early,” the new Palestinian diplomat in Lisbon had been holding, in The Hague, the positions of permanent representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).

Before the Netherlands, Rawan Sulaiman, who began her diplomatic career in 1996 in the Civil Society and Non-Governmental Organizations Division of the Palestinian Ministry of International Cooperation, was Deputy Minister for Multilateral Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates.

In these roles, the new Palestinian Ambassador to Lisbon, born in Jerusalem on August 31, 1970 (54 years old), and educated in English Language and Literature, led the negotiations for the comprehensive agreement, which she considers “historic,” with the Holy See, signed in June 2015.

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