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Article: Qurei to become permanent PM.(interim Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei )(Brief Article)
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- MEED Middle East Economic Digest
- Article date:
- October 31, 2003
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Interim Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei (Abu Ala) is set to take up the post permanently at the request of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. His emergency one-month mandate expires on 4 November. "[Qurei] agreed to form an enlarged government and he will present it at the end of the current cabinet's mandate," Foreign Affairs Minister Nabil Shaath said on 28 October.
Qurei replaced Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), who resigned in September over differences with Ararat and frustration at the moribund peace process. Qurei's strength is his ...