Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi has selected a fiery former Nicaraguan foreign minister and U.N. General Assembly president, Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockman, to represent him at the United Nations.

Libya's erstwhile Foreign Minister Musa Imhimid Kusa wrote a letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on March 27 stating that Libya "has decided to appoint Mr. Miguel D'Escoto Brockman, former minister of foreign affairs of Nicaragua, as its representative to the United Nations in New York, being therefore also authorized to speak on its behalf in all of the organs of the United Nations system."