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Middle East
Differences still arising over PA interior minister
2003-11-04
Palestinian sources have said that differences were still raging over the person who would be entrusted with the Palestinian Authority’s interior portfolio in the government of Ahmed Qurei and his jurisdictions. Qurei is insisting on Nasser Yousef as his favorite nominee to that post while PA chief Yasser Arafat was still adamant on rejecting him because he did not attend the swearing-in ceremony of Qrei’s emergency government.
Oh, that was just because Yasser spit on him...
Palestinian legislative council member and Fatah official, Hatem Abdul Qader, noted that Arafat finally agreed on appointing three minders assistants to the interior minister to resolve the dispute. Abdul Qader underlined that the Palestinian street was fed up with such discrepancy and called for attending to more fateful questions confronting the Palestinian people. Palestinian sources noted that differences were renewed in the light of Qurei’s insistence on Yousef with full jurisdictions while Arafat opted for the appointment of his hairdresser Hakam Balawi. The sources noted that Qurei was exerting efforts to finalize his expanded government after his limited eight-member emergency cabinet’s term expired today. The sources predicted that the cabinet line-up would be tabled with the Fatah central committee today prior to tabling it with the legislative council on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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