The new Cabinet presided over by Prime Minister Hesham Qandil was sworn in today by President Mohamed Morsy at the presidential palace in Heliopolis. As Qandil had confirmed earlier on Thursday in a press conference, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi will continue to serve as minister of defense, while Momtaz al-Saeed also retained his position as finance minister. Other ministers who will stay on in the new government include Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr, Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Ali, Military Production Minister Ali Ibrahim Sabry, Social Affairs Minister Nagwa Khalil and Scientific Research Minister Nadia Zakhary. Morsy's government includes four new ministries, including the Ministry of Water and Sewage — which is a separate entity from the currently existing Ministry of Water and Irrigation — and state ministries for youth and sport. The State Ministry of Investment that had been dissolved after the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak will be reinstated. State-owned MENA news agency said that Civil Aviation Minister Samir Imbaby was not sworn in today because he is currently out of the country. The other new ministers include: Minister of Environment, Mostafa Hussein Minister of Local Development , Ahmed Zaki Abdeen Minister of Water and Sewage, Abdel Kawi Khalifa Minister of Culture, Mohamed Ibrahim Arab Minister of Local Development, Osama Saleh Minister of Education, Ibrahim Ahmed Ghoneim Minister of Electricity and Power, Mohamed Balba State Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Mohamed Mahsoub Minister of Interior, Ahmed Gamal Eddin Minister of Tourism, Hesham Zaazou Minister of Agriculture, Salah Abdel Momen Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Hani Mahmoud Minister of Petroleum, Osama Kamal Minister of Transportation, Mohamed Rashad Nasr Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Mohamed Baha-Eddin Saad Minister of Housing, Tarek Wagih Minister of Higher Education, Mostafa al-Sayed Mosad Minister of Supply and Internal Trade, Abu Zeid Mohamed Minister of Manpower and Immigration, Khaled al-Azhary Minister of Endowments, Talaat Afify Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Ashraf Abdel Fatah Minister of Health and Housing, Mohamed Mostafa Hamed Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Salah Abdel Maqsoud Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade, Hatem Abdel Hamid Mahmoud Sadek Minister of Youth, Osama Yassin Minister of Sports, Al-Amry Farouk Minister of Justice, Ahmed Mekky Minister of Civil Aviation, Samir Imbaby
