Iraq government breaks impasse on cabinet posts

  • 12/15/2022
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Baghdad, May 7 (SPA) - Iraq's government has agreed who will be the country's new defense and oil ministers, breaking an impasse which prevented the full cabinet from being sworn in earlier this month, government sources said on Saturday. Reuters quoted leading sources in the two main political blocs -- the United Iraqi Alliance and the Kurdish coalition -- as saying that Saadoun al-Dulaimi, a Sunni Arab, would be the new defense minister. Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum, a Shi'ite, will be oil minister, they said. --SPA1155 Local Time 0855 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/260470

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