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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America New Iraq cabinet starts work on 'enormous' challenges AFP - 36 minutes ago Send IM Story Print New Iraq cabinet starts work on 'enormous' challenges BAGHDAD (AFP) - – Iraq's new cabinet held its first meeting on Wednesday faced with "enormous" challenges to improve security, public services and ties with other countries, following months of political deadlock. "We must have a clear policy in the sectors of security, finance, oil, electricity and on improving our foreign relations," Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told ministers in a speech broadcast on television. "The challenges facing us are enormous." Maliki said "his three top priorities are security, public services, especially electricity, and relations with neighbouring countries," aide Ali Moussawi told AFP earlier. On Tuesday, parliament gave its approval to Maliki, three deputy prime ministers and 31 other cabinet ministers, as well as a government programme, and approved interim ministers for the remaining 10 cabinet posts. But the ministries responsible for two of Maliki's three priorities -- security and electricity -- have only acting heads. Maliki has assumed interim control of the defence, interior and national security ministries. These posts are responsible for assuring security after the planned pullout by end 2011 of the roughly 50,000 US troops left in Iraq. Maliki, who does not want to extend the US troop presence, can boast of a significant reduction in violence since he took power in 2006, but about 3,500 people have still been killed this year. Al-Qaeda in Iraq has been dealt significant blows. But its operatives retain the capacity to carry out high-profile operations like the October 31 seizure of a Baghdad cathedral that cost the lives of 44 worshippers, two priests and seven security force personnel. Seven years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, public services, especially electricity, remain in a deplorable state. Draconian power rationing remains routine and sparked deadly protests during the summer as temperatures topped 50 degrees Celsius (120 Fahrenheit) across central and southern Iraq, leaving those unable to afford private generators unable to air-condition homes or refrigerate food. Those protests sparked the resignation of the then electricity minister. Deputy Prime Minister Hussein Shahristani, who as oil minister took interim charge of the electricity post, is to stay on as an acting minister until a permanent appointment has been made. Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, a former Kurdish rebel who has been a permanent fixture in every government since the invasion, will take charge of Maliki's third priority of improving relations with neighbouring countries. Relations with Syria have improved since a crisis during several months last year, when Baghdad, backed by the United States, accused Damascus of harbouring "terrorists." But relations remain rocky with staunchly Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia, which campaigned strongly against Maliki winning a second term as premier because of his perceived close ties to Shiite Iran. And a number of issues remain between Baghdad and Kuwait, which Iraq invaded in 1990 only to be driven out by an international coalition seven months later. Judging by Iraqi press reaction to the new line-up, any honeymoon period for Maliki to make progress in improving security and services is likely to be short-lived. "What's important is not how many people are on the boat but how well the captain steers it across stormy seas," said an editorial in independent daily Al-Mashraq. "And he must not use the heavy winds as an excuse not to lead us to the safe haven of peace and security." Another newspaper, Al-Dustur, expressed regret that some ministers had been appointed not because of their abilities but through "nepotism or political favour." Of the 35 cabinet posts finally distributed, Maliki's Shiite National Alliance bloc holds 19, the secular Iraqiya nine, the Kurdish Alliance four and other smaller parties three. The cabinet so far is made up of 20 Shiites, 10 Sunnis, four Kurds, and one Christian, according to an AFP count. 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