31.   Majko promised to resolve the crisis by appointing ministers acceptable to rival factions and make way for necessary reforms.

32.   Mehmet Kececiler, the minister in charge of customs, will head the privatization ministry until a new minister is appointed.

33.   Netanyahu, speaking in Haifa, said he would not appoint ministers for now, adding that his eventual choice for the defense portfolio would be a surprise.

34.   No women deputy ministers were appointed and all the new directors of government ministries and heads of parliamentary committees are also men.

35.   On Thursday, Milosevic reshuffled his federal government, appointing six ministers from the hardline Serbian Radical Party which opposed the Kosovo peace agreement.

36.   The new leader has not yet appointed a minister of national security, but said he would do so by the end of this week.

37.   The president may be willing to give the Duma more consultative powers on appointing ministers, they added.

38.   The prime minister also indicated he was ready to appoint new ministers of foreign affairs and the interior later Friday.

39.   Uk Vithun was replaced by Neav Sithong, a supreme court prosecutor, as part of a Cabinet reshuffle in which two other new ministers were appointed.

40.   Yaya will replace Edima until a new interior minister can be appointed.