Ramallah (West Bank), Oct 28: Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei has agreed to stay on as leader of an enlarged government after the end of his emergency cabinet's one-month tenure, Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said today. "Abu Alaa (Qorei) has agreed to form an enlarged government and he will present it to parliament at the end of the current cabinet's mandate," Shaath told reporters.
He was speaking after a meeting in the West Bank town of Ramallah of the mainstream Fatah organisation's Central Committee, which was chaired by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Qorei was sworn in by Arafat as the head of a one-month emergency cabinet on October 07. Bureau Report