Arafat approves to form emergency cabinet

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Arafat approves to form emergency cabinet

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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Sunday signed a presidential decree, approving to form an emergency cabinet for the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) that consists of nine members, well-informed Palestinian sources reported.

    The sources said that in the presidential decree, Arafat declared a state of emergency in the Palestinian territories and approved to form a Palestinian emergency government with Qurei as the prime minister.

The decree, published by the official WAFA news agency, said that "according to the competence and authorities in our hands, and due to the current difficult circumstances that our homeland is witnessing and for the urgent necessity and according to the highest national interests and after looking at the Palestinian basic law, we decided the following:

-- Declaring a state of emergency according to the seventh version of the Palestinian basic law on all the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) territories.

-- Forming an emergency government that consists of:

    1. Ahmed Qurei, prime minister

2. Nasser Yousef, minister of interior

3. Sallam Fayad, minister of finance

4. Nabil Shaath, minister of foreign affairs

    5. Na'eem Abu Al-Homos, minister of education

    6. Saeb Erekat

7. Jawad Al Tibi

8. Jamal Al Shoubaki

9. Abdel Rahman Hamad.

The decree said that the mission of the new cabinet is to devote to Palestinian national unity in addition to its other missions Qurei has confirmed to reporters the forming of the emergency cabinet, saying that its mission would be to keep national unity among the Palestinians and act to end disorder and implement discipline and the rule of law.

Arafat signed the decree a day after a deadly suicide bombing in Israel's northern coastal city of Haifa, which killed 19 people and wounded over 50 others.

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