text: Senegal proposes foreign minister for U.N. post . DAKAR 1996-12-06 Senegal 's President Abdou Diouf said on Friday he was proposing his foreign minister Moustapha Niasse for the post of United Nations secretary-general . Diouf announced his intention to reporters when he returned from the Franco-African summit in Burkina Faso where an African successor to Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was discussed . The United States has vetoed a second term for the Egyptian but left the door open for another African candidate . " If Africa does not wish to lose its turn we have to act fast , " Diouf said . " Some of my brother heads of state asked me if I would n't nominate Moustapha Niasse . I see in him the profile of a secretray-general of the United Nations and I have given my endorsement . "