New Jordanian government announced today

The Jordanian designated prime Minister Faisal al-Fayez announces today his new government which is composed of 21 ministers most of them are technocrats, keeping nine ministers from the previous government including the foreign minister Marwan Muasher.

He decreased the number of ministers in the new government from 29 ministers to 21 ministers including three women and abrogated the ministry of information and appointed the activist in the area of human and woman rights, Asmaa Qader as a spokeswoman for the government and a minister without portfolio, in addition to the minister of tourism Alia Bouran and a local rule minister and rural areas affairs Amal Farhan.

Al-Fayez will also assume the ministry of defense. He also kept the minister of planning Bassem Awadallah for making the economic reforms requested by the International Monetary Fund to get rid off Jordan;s foreign debt which tolled USD 7 billion.

Official sources said that al-Fayez who will take his constitutional oath with his government today, before King Abdullah, met yesterday with the new ministers apart from the mass media at the Royal palace in al-Aqaba to draw the policy of the new government, noting that the King attended part of the meeting. The King assigned al-Fayez on Wednesday to form the government to replace the government of Ali Abu al-Ragheb. N.