Areikat: PLO Has 'No Plans' to Take Israel to Int'l Court The Christian Science Monitor - St. Regis Hotel On Monday, September 13, 2011, Palestinian Ambassador Maen Areikat joined the Monitor Lunch for a conversation with reporters.
Maen Rashid Areikat is the Palestinian Ambassador to Washington. Prior to his appointment to Washington, Mr. Areikat was bestowed the rank of Ambassador by Chairman of the PLO and Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Maen Areikat served for 11 years at the Negotiations Affairs Department (NAD) of the PLO in Ramallah, most recently as its Deputy Head and Coordinator-General (2008-2009). Areikat first joined NAD in 1998, when it was headed by current Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), and served as its Director-General until March 2008. In addition to overseeing NAD’s day-to-day operations, Mr. Areikat was responsible for overseeing the work of the Negotiations Support Unit (NSU), which provides legal, policy, communication and technical support to Palestinian Negotiating Teams and to the Palestinian Leadership.
