By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 11 --Iraq has appointed former Oil Minister Amer Mohammed Rashid as the country's acting oil minister after he was relieved from the minister's post on Jan. 7, OPEC News Agency reported.
Iraq President Saddam Hussein signed the decree reappointing him, but the decree did not say why he was reappointed, OPECNA said. Prominent in Iraq's oil policy, Rashid served as Iraq's oil minister during 1995-2003.
Previously, ruling Baath party member Samir Abdulaziz Al-Najm had been named acting oil minister (OGJ, Jan. 13, 2003, p. 7).
