Qatar: government reshuffle

Qatari official sources announced that Amir of Qatar, Shaikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani made a limited government's reshuffle, according to which he appointed a new minister for the economy and commerce.

The Qatari news agency said that the Amir of Qatar issued yesterday "an order to amend the Qatari cabinet according to which he appointed Sheikh Muhammad Bin Ahmad Bin Jasem al-Thani as a minister of the economy and trade," in succession of Sheikh Hamad Bin Faisal al-Thani who has been occupying this post since the foundation of the ministry, when it when seperated from the financial affairs, in a similar governmental reshuffle in January 2002.