DHAKA, Bangladesh President Hussian Mohammad Reshod will announce an interim Cabinet next week before leaving on tour of southern Asia, officials said Friday,

Ershad has scheduled a three-day visit 0 Bhutan on June 3 and will then travel to Nepal, India and Pakistan, the officials said. In July he will visit the Maldives and Sri Lanka, they said.

‘The visits are timed to highlight his government’s success in last ‘week’s general elections in which 19 of 22 of his ministers were reelected. Returns are still coming in

The officials said Ershad planned to announce a new interim Cabinet next week but would reshuffle it before Parliament resumed in the first week of July.

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