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title: 'Shehbaz Congratulates Lebanon’s New PM Nawaf Salam'
url: 'https://thediplomaticinsight.com/shehbaz-congratulates-lebanons-new-pm-nawaf-salam/'
author: 'Farkhund Yousafzai'
date: '2025-01-14T15:13:55+05:00'
categories:
  - 'Diplomatic News'
  - 'Featured'
  - 'Pakistan'
---

# Shehbaz Congratulates Lebanon’s New PM Nawaf Salam

**Islamabad (TDI):** Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday congratulated Nawaf Salam on his election as the Prime Minister of Lebanon.

The prime minister, in a post on social media platform X, said that Pakistan valued its relations with Lebanon and looked forward to working with Salam to deepen Pak-Lebanon cooperation.

https://x.com/cmshehbaz/status/1879091699169059091?s=46&t=SApcAZAv0zK56lMSgiF_fg

Nawaf Salam, the president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, has been named as Lebanon’s new prime minister after two-thirds of the 128 members of parliament nominated him for the position.

Salam belongs to a prominent Sunni family from Beirut.

His uncle, Salam, helped Lebanon gain freedom from France in 1943 and served several terms as prime minister.

**Also Read: [Army Chief Joseph Aoun Ascends to Lebanon’s Presidency](https://thediplomaticinsight.com/army-chief-joseph-aoun-ascends-to-lebanons-presidency/)**

His cousin, Tammam, also served prime minister from 2014 to 2016.

He holds a doctorate in political science from Sciences Po university in France, a doctorate in history from the Sorbonne and a Master of Law degree from Harvard Law School.

Salam worked as a lawyer and a lecturer at multiple universities before serving as Lebanon’s permanent representative to the UN in New York from 2007 to 2017.

He became a member of the ICJ – the UN’s top court – in 2018, and was elected president for a 3-year term last February.

**Also Read: [Saudi FM, US Envoy Discuss Lebanon Crisis](https://thediplomaticinsight.com/saudi-fm-us-envoy-discuss-lebanon-crisis/)**

He took over as the ICJ heard a case brought by South Africa that accused Israeli troops of committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Israel dismissed the allegation as baseless.