Yemen will put forward the candidacy of prominent politician and economist Yassin Saeed Noman to succeed Amr Moussa as secretary-general of the Arab League next year, an informed political source said yesterday.
Noman, a former parliament speaker and a member of the Yemeni Socialist Party, will be proposed by the Yemeni government as a successor to Moussa, an ex-Egyptian foreign minister whose term ends in May 2006, the source said.
| I think he's still an Egyptian. He's an ex-foreign minister. But I could be wrong... |
Moussa was named to the post in May 2001. "As a founder member of the Arab League, Yemen is entitled to seek the post of secretary general," the source said. Noman's candidacy would also be in line with moves toward reforming the Arab League to make the 22-member body more in tune with the aspirations of the Arab people and regional and international changes, he added. |