He served as Cairo’s ambassador to India in 1967 and as Egypt’s ambassador to the United Nations in 1990. He was appointed foreign minister in the Ganzouri Cabinet in 1991 and remained in this position until 2001. In 2004 an online community gathered tens of thousands of signatures petitioning for Moussa to run in the 2005 elections, but there was no response. In a Doha Debate Forum televised by the BBC in 2006, Moussa was asked about his presidential hopes. Moussa merely replied that he hoped to continue the recent run of successes that have occurred under his leadership at the Arab League, until the end of his term.