Born in Zouk Mikael, Keserwan on 1 March 1925, Naffah graduated from Université Saint-Joseph with a bachelor's degree in law in 1946.

Dimechkie writes: "the majority of Lebanese feel perfectly at ease in their exchanges with all human beings, without consideration of colour, race or religion.

The conference decided to send a delegation presided by the Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs instead, a Maronite Christian, Mr. Fouad Naffah in order to play the mediator between the two disputing parties.

[4] In January 1974, Naffah participated in a special Arab League mission to South America, seeking to clarify the position of different nations on the Arab-Israeli conflict, including that of Brazil.

[7] On 11 April 1974, the Kiryat Shmona massacre occurred in which eighteen people were killed in Israel by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

The United Nations Security Council then adopted a resolution on 24 April that condemned Israel for its violation of Lebanese territory, but did not mention the attack at Kiryat Shmona.

The moderate Arab countries had made it clear that an American veto would severely impair their ability to urge restraint.