by RAY FLEMING
WHEN commenting last Saturday about the appointment of Iyad Allawi as prime minister of the interim Iraqi government, I said that it was to be hoped that further appointments would be conducted in a more orderly and acceptable way. It was a vain hope. Yesterday's installation of Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar as president took place in an atmosphere of intrigue and pressure that might at first sight seem to presage a difficult progress to a democratic future in Iraq. However, what has emerged quite clearly from both Iyad Allawi's and Ghazi Yawar's appointments is that in the dying moments of its authority the Iraq Governing Council, appointed by the United States and long regarded as an impotent instrument of the Coalition powers, asserted itself to ensure that prominent and independent-minded Iraqi leaders should take the country forward to the elections for a National Assembly due in about six months.
IRAQ GETS A GOVERNMENT
02/06/2004 00:00
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