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29-05-04, 01:00
Former exile Iyad Allawi has been chosen to head an interim Iraqi government after sovereignty is handed back on 30 June.
Mr Allawi - a Shia Muslim - was endorsed unanimously by the Governing Council, member Mahmoud Othman said.
A United Nations spokesman has said UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi - who is charged with choosing the interim government - "respects" the nomination.
The cabinet will govern Iraq until direct elections scheduled for 2005.
Mr Allawi, a British-educated neurologist, left Iraq after turning against Saddam Hussein in the 1970s.
Chief US administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer attended Friday's session of the interim Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) and congratulated Mr Allawi on his nomination, according to an aide to the IGC quoted by the AP news agency.
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Mr Allawi - a Shia Muslim - was endorsed unanimously by the Governing Council, member Mahmoud Othman said.
A United Nations spokesman has said UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi - who is charged with choosing the interim government - "respects" the nomination.
The cabinet will govern Iraq until direct elections scheduled for 2005.
Mr Allawi, a British-educated neurologist, left Iraq after turning against Saddam Hussein in the 1970s.
Chief US administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer attended Friday's session of the interim Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) and congratulated Mr Allawi on his nomination, according to an aide to the IGC quoted by the AP news agency.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3757431.stm)