Four new members on the Saudi Shoura council

The official Saudi news agency has reported that King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz on Monday appointed four new members to the Shoura council in succession of three other members who became ministers and a fourth who was appointed as an ambassador.

The new members in the Shoura council, which is composed of 90 members, are Abdullah Saleh al-Otheimin, Fahd Bin Abdullah al-Mubarak, Mansour Bin Mahmoud Abdul Ghaffar and Youssef Bin Yaqoub Kentab. The new Shoura council members succeed the new Minister of al-Haj Eyad Bin Amin al-Madani, Minister of Labor Ali Bin Ibrahim al-Namleh, Planning Minister Khaled Bin Muhammad al-Quseibi as well as the Saudi ambassador in Iran, Jamil al-Habashi.

The Saudi king made a limited reshuffle on June 16.