Yawar is Iraq’s president, new government sworn in

BAGHDAD: Iraqi leaders got their way over US opposition on Tuesday to have their candidate Ghazi Yawar appointed president after Washington’s choice stepped aside, averting a showdown between the occupiers and the occupied. After two days of bitter confrontation over the largely ceremonial post, Iraqi Governing Council members said Washington’s preferred candidate, elder statesman Adnan Pachachi, had turned down the post minutes after being offered it by the United Nations in defiance of the Council’s wishes. Meanwhile, Iraq’s new interim government was sworn in here on Tuesday. afp

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