Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Monday replaced Industry and Mines Ministry Adnan Abdul Majid with Deputy Director of Military Manufacturing Corporation Myassar Raja Shallah, according to the official Iraqi News Agency (INA).
Majid has been appointed to the presidency’s civil reserve department as consultant, said the agency and reports.
"Majid has been relieved of his functions and designated a role in the department of civil reserve in the presidential office," said a decree from President Hussein, quoted by the official agency.
"Majid will keep all the privileges from which he benefited while he headed up the industry ministry," it said.
According to AFP, the following is Iraq's new government list after President Saddam Hussein's appointment of Shallah, and Naji Sabri as foreign minister on Saturday in place of Tareq Aziz, who had occupied the post on a temporary basis:
- President of the republic, president of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), commander-in-chief of the armed forces and prime minister: Saddam Hussein
- Vice president of the RCC, deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces: Ezzat Ibrahim
- Vice president and deputy prime minister: Taha Yassin Ramadan
- Vice president: Taha Mohieddin Maaruf
- Deputy prime minister: Tareq Aziz
- Deputy prime minister and head of the presidential cabinet: Ahmad Hussein Khudeir
- Deputy prime minister and finance minister: Hekmat Ibrahim Al Azzawi
- Deputy prime minister and military industrialization minister: Abdul Tawab Mulla Howeish
- Foreign minister: Naji Sabri
- Interior minister: Mahmud Diab Al Ahmad
- Trade minister: Mohammad Mehdi Saleh
- Justice minister: Monzer Ibrahim Al Shawi
- Defense minister: General Sultan Hashem Ahmad
- Oil minister: General Amer Mohammad Rashid
- Health minister: Umid Medhat Mubarak
- Labor and social affairs minister: General Saadi Tohma Abbas
- Irrigation minister: Rassul Abd Al Hussein Sawadi
- Agriculture minister: Abdul Ilah Hamid
- Transport minister: Ahmad Murtada Ahmad
- Industry and mines minister: Mayssar Raja Shallah
- Higher education and scientific research minister: Homam Abdul Khalek Abdul Ghafur
- Education minister: Fahd Salem Al Shaqra
- Waqf and religious affairs minister: Abdul Monem Ahmad Saleh
- Information minister: Mohammad Said Al Sahhaf
- Culture minister: Hamad Youssef Hammadi
- Housing and building ministry: Maan Abdullah Sarsam
- Minister of state for military affairs: General Abdul Jabbar Shanshal
- Minister of state: Ershad Al Zibari
- Minister of state: Abdul Wahab Omar Al Atroushi
- Minister of state: Samal Majid Faraj
- President of the planning committee with the rank of minister: Hassan Abdul Moneem Al Khattab
- Director of electricity with the rank of minister: Faisal Sahban – Albawaba.com
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