New Egyptian Prime Minister

The Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzouri presented today his resignation to the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who accepted it and directed thanks to the resigned ministry for its effort and the work in the large projects for expending the agricultural and the technological progress. Mubarak appointed Atef Abeid, minister of the public enterprise sector, as the Primer Minister for the new cabinet to make a new ministerial formation.

President Mubarak gave him the measures by which he should commit in choosing the ministers and to present the cabinet to President Mubarak on Saturday.