Moussa to continue as Arab League secretary general

The Egyptian foreign ministry notified the Arab League on Egypt's nomination to the post of the Arab League secretary general for a second term after consultations and consent of the Arab states for this nomination.

Ahmad Bin Hali, the Arab League assistant secretary general for political affairs said that no Arab state had applied to assume this post, stressing that the door is open to all member states until the convening of the Arab Summit in Khartoum on March 28th.

Worthy mentioning that Algeria had proposed to have the post of the AL secretary general a rotating one among the member states instead of having the occupier of this post always be from Egypt, but it withdraw this request.

Amr Moussa who was born in 1936 worked as Egypt's foreign minister from 1991 to 2001 and he was elected as a secretary general for the Arab League in May 2000 and still continues to occupy this post.