Iraqi political leaders are still negotiating over who should head the oil and trade ministries in the new, full-term government being formed this week, the prime minister-designate said on Tuesday.
"There is still discussion about the oil ministry. There is a dispute. It may be finished today. There are also disputes over the trade and transport ministries," Nuri al-Maliki told a news conference.
The fate of the ministries, highly significant to efforts to rebuild oil-rich Iraq's shattered economy over the next four years until new elections, is part of broader bargaining among the main ethnic and sectarian factions.
U.S. diplomats, playing a role in the negotiations, have been pushing hard for Maliki to ensure posts to go to competent professionals.
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