FACTOID #151: The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
Previously, he served as Egypt's ambassador to India in 1967, its ambassador to the United Nations in 1990, and as its foreign minister from 1991 to 2001. For other uses, see Ambassador (disambiguation). ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
Amr Moussa is by far the most popular Egyptian diplomat and there have been numerous calls by Egyptians asking him to run for Presidential elections. Moussa was a very outspoken diplomat and he was well known for his sharp criticism to US bias towards Israel especially after Israeli massacres in Southern Lebanon. It is said that he was essentially moved to the Arab League to remove him from the spotlight as he was becoming a strong contender to President Mubarak of Egypt and the US wanted him silenced.
In 2004, there has been an online community that gathered tens of thousands of signatures petitioning for Amr Moussa to run in the 2005 elections, but there has not been any response on his behalf.
Mussa is the secretary general of that distinguished 22-nation association, the Arab League, and he wants the world to know that he is shocked — shocked — by comments made by Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi last week.
Mussa would like to look instead to the presses of Egypt and Syria, countries where little that is printed appears without some degree of government approval, countries where there is widespread circulation of the sort of gutter anti-Semitism not generally seen in Europe since the days of the Third Reich.
Mussa does not even have to leave the confines of his own bureaucracy to find racism, or at least racism in the ludicrous way that he defines it.
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