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Ex-military dominate Myanmar’s new cabinet: official

12 February 2011 04:35 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Myanmar’s new junta-backed government is packed with retired military officers who were approved by parliament as cabinet ministers on Friday, officials said, APA reports quoting AFP.
"Four out of the 30 new ministers have no military background," a Myanmar official who did not want to be named told AFP.
Half of the new cabinet members were also ministers under the previous military government.
Khin Shwe, an upper house member of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), told AFP the 30 nominees for ministerial posts proposed by junta strongman Than Shwe were approved by parliament unanimously.
It has not yet been announced which positions they will take in the new government, but Myanmar’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Wunna Maung Lwin, is likely to take the post of foreign minister, according to official sources.
Lieutenant General Ko Ko is tipped for defence minister.
Last week Myanmar named a key retired general -- Prime Minister Thein Sein -- as the country’s new president, as the military hierarchy retains its tight grip on power under a new political system.
A key ally of Than Shwe, the 65-year-old is head of the junta-backed USDP, which claimed an overwhelming majority in a November poll.
Thein Sein was one of a clutch of generals who shed their army uniform to contest last year’s controversial elections, which critics said were a charade aimed at hiding military rule behind a civilian facade.
A quarter of the parliamentary seats were kept aside for the military even before the country’s first poll in 20 years, which was marred by the absence of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and claims of cheating and intimidation.
Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) has no voice in the new parliament after it was disbanded for opting to boycott the election.

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