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BAGHDAD, Mar 02, 2012 (AFP) - Iraq is looking to nominate ex-oil minister Thamer al-Ghadban, now Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's chief adviser, as the next secretary general of OPEC, officials said on Friday.
An official decision is due at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the officials said, to name Ghadban as Iraq's candidate to succeed Abdullah El-Badri when his second three-year term expires at the end of 2012.
"Iraq is working to nominate Thamer Ghadban for this position, but the final decision will be taken at the cabinet meeting," an oil ministry official.
Another official confirmed the plans.
Ghadban, a technocrat, was appointed to head the ministry during the premiership of Iyad Allawi in 2004, in the immediate aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion.
He left the ministry in 2005.
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An official decision is due at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the officials said, to name Ghadban as Iraq's candidate to succeed Abdullah El-Badri when his second three-year term expires at the end of 2012.
"Iraq is working to nominate Thamer Ghadban for this position, but the final decision will be taken at the cabinet meeting," an oil ministry official.
Another official confirmed the plans.
Ghadban, a technocrat, was appointed to head the ministry during the premiership of Iyad Allawi in 2004, in the immediate aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion.
He left the ministry in 2005.
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