31.   Previously he has been appointed by parliament.

32.   The council is made up of six religious leaders appointed by Khamenei and six legal experts appointed by parliament.

33.   The Israeli parliament appointed Sharon as head of a newly-created super-ministry, with a wide range of powers and an annual budget of two billion dollars.

34.   The Iraqi parliament on Sunday appointed a Baath Party official as speaker to replace Saadi Mahdi Saleh, who died last week in Jordan.

35.   The parliament also appointed five deputies all from the SDS to represent the RS in the joint Bosnian parliament.