NEW TURKMEN LEADER REINSTATES SACKED EDUCATION MINISTER

Turkmen TV Altyn Asyr channel, Asgabat
16 Feb 07

Decree by the president of Turkmenistan [Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow]
on Saparlyyew.

Hydyr Muhammetberdiyewic Saparlyyew is to be appointed as minister
of education of Turkmenistan for a six-month probationary period and
should he fail in performing his official duties, he is to be relieved
of the post without the offer of another post.

[Signed by] Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow, the president of Turkmenistan.

[Saparlyyew was sacked by the late Turkmen president, Saparmyrat
Nyyazow, as education minister last October and sent to Armenia
as ambassador.]