Former Afghan minister says he was not considered as transitional president

FILE PHOTO: Afghan Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan September 28, 2005. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Afghan Interior Minister Ali Jalali on Monday said he was never under consideration to become transitional president for Afghanistan and that he would never have accepted the position.

"The bottom line is that I've never been contacted. I've never been considered. I never thought about it, and I'm not interested," Jalali, who served as Afghanistan's first interior minister after a 2001 U.S.-led invasion, told Reuters.