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Iraq PM nomination made
28/05/2004 14:36 - (SA)
Baghdad - Iyad Allawi, a Shiite Muslim physician who spent years in exile, has been nominated by the Governing Council to become prime minister of the new government to take power June 30, a Governing Council member said on Friday.
Allawi was endorsed unanimously by the council, council member Mahmoud Othman said.
An aide to council member Salama al-Khafaji said Allawi was the choice of the council but did not know whether it had been endorsed by UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who is charged with putting together a new government.
Allawi was formerly secretary-general of the Iraq National Accord, an opposition group made up in part by former military officers who had defected from Saddam Hussein's regime.
He began opposition to the Iraqi regime in the early 1970s and was at the forefront of international efforts to organise opposition to the former regime.
- AP
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