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Maged A. Abdelaziz (born 1954) was the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Africa at the level of Under-Secretary-General between 2012 and 2017. He was an Egyptian diplomat who had been Egypt's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since January 2005. [1] He is married and has one daughter.
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