After solving the complex of the ministry of tourism, Mubarak issues the new government decree

The Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in a presidential decree issued yesterday evening approved the formation of the new Egyptian government chaired by the prime minister Ahmad Nazif, who is due to take his constitutional oath today.

The new government's decree after appointing the Businessman Ahmad al-Maghribi, who carries the Egyptian and Saudi nationalities, as a minister of the tourism which was the last ministerial bag, left in the new formation which is composed of 34 ministers including 14 new ministers of the technocrats, in addition to changing posts of three ministers.

The Middle East News Agency MENA broadcast the text of the republican decree on forming the new government in which the ministers of defense and the Interiors kept their posts, while the Egyptian ambassador at the UN Ahmad Abu al-Gheit assumed the post of the foreign minister in succession of Ahmad Maher who left the ministry. In addition to the new prime minister who had occupied the post of the minister of telecommunications in the former prime minister government Atef Obeid, the minister of tourism Mamdouh al-Neltaji moved to the ministry of information in succession of Safwat al-Sharif, who was appointed last week as the chairman of the Shoura council. Youssef Butrous Ghali assumed the post of the ministry of Finance instead of the ministry of foreign trade, a post he had in the former government and he was replaced by Rasheed Muhammad Rasheed Hussein who brought together the foreign trade ministry and the ministry of industry in a merged new ministry.

Among the new faces is Mahmoud Safwat Mohey Eddine, the youngest minister in the government ( 39 year old) who assumed a new ministry which is the ministry of investment. Mohey Eddine told journalists on Monday following his assignment that his ministry will be responsible for investment at the international and local levels.