Arafat Announces Reforms to PNA Cabinet

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Arafat Announces Reforms to PNA Cabinet

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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat issued on Sunday a presidential order of reforming a reshuffled Palestinian National Authority cabinet, Palestinian Minister of Information Yasser Abed Rabbo announced at a news conference.

At the conference held Sunday afternoon in the Palestinian MediaCenter in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Abed Rabbo named the 21 new ministers of the PNA cabinet, which originally had 31 ministers.

He said the new government is a government of emergency. He expressed the hope that the world community and Arab and foreign countries help the new government do its job and help end the Israeli military siege, isolation and closure imposed on the Palestinian territories.

The goal of the new temporary transitional cabinet is to build what had been destroyed in the Palestinian territories by the Israeli occupation forces, and prepare the Palestinian community for a better future, Abed Rabbo said.

The new cabinet will be approved by the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in a special session that would be held in both Ramallah and the Gaza Strip on Monday.

Chief of the PLC political committee and law-maker Zeyad Abu Amer said that it is not a new formed cabinet, adding that it is a reshuffled transitional cabinet that would run the affairs of the Palestinians until the elections are held.

"The aim of forming a new minimized cabinet is to reduce expenses and to prevent more administrative contradictions," said Abed Rabbo.

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