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Iraq's Governing Council Names Cabinet

The U.S.-picked Iraqi Governing Council named a 25-member Cabinet on Monday, a much-delayed move that could accelerate the return of some powers from the American occupation administration to Iraqi authorities.


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The U.S.-picked Iraqi Governing Council named a 25-member Cabinet on Monday, a much-delayed move that could accelerate the return of some powers from the American occupation administration to Iraqi authorities.

The ethnic and religious breakdown of the 25 members showed the body was made up of 13 Shiites, five Sunni Arabs, five Kurds (also Sunnis), one ethnic Turk and an Assyrian Christian.

Those numbers exactly match the ethnic and religious breakdown of the 25-member Governing Council.

The new Foreign Minister will be Hoshyar Zebari, who was spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party. The key Oil Ministry will be headed by Ibrahim Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum, the son of Governing Council member Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum, who on Saturday suspended his membership in the interim body because of the lack of security in Iraq and what he saw as the American's inability to protect prominent figures.

Nisreen Mustafa Siddiq Barwari, the only woman in the Cabinet, is a Kurd and was named Minister of General Works. The exact responsibilities of the various ministries has not yet been announced.

The infamous Information Ministry was abolished in the new government list.

L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian administrator for Iraq, has said the process of drafting a constitution, holding a referendum on it and conducting a national election for a new, independent government could be finished by the end of 2004.

Source: Agencies


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