Azerbaijan, Baku, June 7/Trend M. Moezzi
Iran's Oil Ministry has officially announced former oil minister's candidacy for the post of OPEC Secretary General.
Gholam Hossain Nosari, who served as Oil Minister during President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first term, has been officially introduced to the OPEC Secretariat as Iran's candidate for the organization's top post, Mehr reported.
There was some uncertainty about whether Iran would nominate a candidate for the Secretary General post and who he would be.
Iran announced on June 2 that it would introduce a nominee for the post of secretary general of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), but a day later Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said that Iran will support Samir Ghazban, the Iraqi nominee for the position.
In addition to Iran and Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Ecuador have said they will nominate candidates for the Secretary General post.
OPEC's current secretary-general, Abdalla el-Badri of Libya, will complete his second three-year term at the end of this year. OPEC ministers will probably consider the nominations at their June 14 meeting at the organization's Vienna headquarters.