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  • Tuesday ,01 March 2011
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AL chief to run for Egyptian presidency

By-Xinhua

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Tuesday ,01 March 2011

AL chief to run for Egyptian presidency

CAIRO - Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa announced on Sunday his intention to run for Egypt's next presidential election, Egypt's state TV reported.

  "I am intending to participate in the next presidential election, and I'll announce this (officially) in suitable time," Moussa, an Egyptian citizen, said in a statement in the Cairo- based headquarter of AL on Saturday, Earlier this month, Moussa, former Egyptian foreign minister, told Egyptian state media that he would resign from the position as chief of the pan-Arab organization within weeks because he has new plans. Moussa said in the statement that the next secretary general of Arab League will be an Egyptian.