Muasher quits the foreign ministry in a ministerial amendment in Jordan

Three ministers in the government of Faisal al-Fayez submitted their resignation in the course of a ministerial reshuffle which has witnessed yesterday evening introducing of ten new ministers to the Jordanian government.

A high ranking governmental officials said that the resigned ministers are the deputy premier and minister of commerce and industry Muhammad Haleyka, minister of telecommunications and international cooperation Fawaz al-Zou'bi and minister of political development Muhammad Dawoudeyah.

Ten new ministers will join the government and this will increase its members to 27 members against 20 when the government of al-Fayez was formed on October 25 in 2005. This is, however, the first amendment for the government since its foundation.

News reports in Amman said that these ministerial reshuffle are the characteristics of the Jordanian governments which are used to such measures every and each year almost, noting that there are no political reasons behind that because the ministerial formation is not linked to parties nor political blocs, rather it is a government of employees which are changed to improve its performance. He stressed that the main change in it is the foreign ministry which is assigned to the ambassador of Jordan in Egypt Hani al-Malaqi and that its minister Marwan Muasher will assume a new post which is monitoring the government performance in addition to the post of the deputy premier in order to make use of his experience in foreign relations in the field of developing the public sector and improving its performance.