He wants to continue as foreign minister even though he has shown little flair for diplomacy.
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He served as a congressman until 2006, when he was tapped as foreign minister.
Maduro announced that a former vice president, Elias Jaua, will begin serving as foreign minister.
Ms Livni showed as foreign minister during Israel's recent Gaza war that she is no cooing dove.
Ms Livni served as foreign minister throughout the government of Mr Sharon's unpopular and scandal-prone successor, Ehud Olmert.
Under Ehud Olmert, she served as foreign minister, advocating talks with Palestinian leaders and a two-state peace settlement.
Throughout her tenure as foreign minister, Livni never had a word to say about the democratization of Iraq.
As foreign minister, Mr Steinmeier has proved soft on Russia, and his party is turning against the war in Afghanistan.
On appointing him as foreign minister in 1998, Mr Netanyahu said Mr Sharon was the best man for the job.
On the same day, a provisional government succeeded with Prince Georgi Lvov as president and Pavel Miliukov as foreign minister.
As foreign minister, Maduro was the country's top diplomat as ties grew with Cuba and tensions rose with the United States.
Earlier, new Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura announced the line-up of the new Cabinet, with Kocher Gemba named as foreign minister.
Mr Akufo Addo was a founding member of the NPP and served as foreign minister in 2002-7 under President John Kufuor.
Waiting in the wings are such progressive technocrats as foreign minister Somsavat, economic czar Bounyang Vorachith and health minister Ponmek Daraloy.
And throughout her tenure as foreign minister, Livni, together with Olmert has insisted that Israel's relations with the US have never been better.
Technocrats have taken several important positions, with diplomat Othman Jerandi named as foreign minister, Lotfi Ben Jeddou as interior minister and Rachid Sabbagh as defence minister.
Early Thursday, he appointed a senior finance ministry official, George Zanias, as the country's new finance minister and a former conservative minister, Petros Moliviatis, as foreign minister.
As foreign minister under Yitzhak Rabin, Peres negotiated his deal with the PLO behind the public's back, and behind Rabin's back - and against their clear opposition.
Ariel Sharon, whose appointment as foreign minister before the Wye conference ensured majority support for the agreement inside Israel's cabinet, is predictably even tougher than his prime minister.
As foreign minister of Spain, his sweetest moment was convening, in 1995, the only conference ever attended by the European Union, Israel and most of its Arab adversaries.
Mr Netanyahu is expected to act as foreign minister while Avigdor Lieberman, who leads his partner Yisrael Beitenu, faces charges of fraud and breach of trust in a trial.
To hedge their bets many businessmen are now betting on other candidates, including Arseniy Yatseniuk, a 34-year-old who has already served as foreign minister, economics minister and central-bank governor.
Seven ministers will remain from the outgoing military-appointed cabinet - including Mumtaz al-Said, who will serve as finance minister, and Mohammed Kamal Amr, who stays on as foreign minister.
Throughout her tenure as foreign minister and still today as Kadima's candidate for prime minister, Livni claims that she supports using diplomacy to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Under Radek Sikorski as foreign minister, Poland has managed to improve relations with all its neighbours and, despite some hiccups, won a favourable security deal from America under Barack Obama.
Mr Peres's job as foreign minister understates his importance.
Mr Maehara blundered during a brief stint as opposition leader five years ago, and he quit as foreign minister in March over a fuss about an illegal donation from a Korean woman.
Mr Papandreou has also had to react nimbly to an acceleration of diplomatic moves over Cyprus, which could make or break the Greek-Turkish rapprochement that is his biggest achievement as foreign minister.
Al Ahram's count put Abdelmonen Abol Fotoh, a moderate Islamist running as an independent, and Amre Moussa, who previously served as foreign minister and headed the Arab League, in fourth and fifth places, respectively.
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