The State Council, the highest executive body, is composed of the president, the prime minister, the heads of executive ministries, and ministers without portfolio.
Ajit Singh, Civil Aviation Minister, before a meeting between Kingfisher executives and ministry officials: "We don't know what their plans are or how they are going to restore a normal schedule.
Although Muslim northerners from Mr. Ouattara's party are bound to be elected in legislative elections in December, they might be shut out of the all-powerful executive and ministries.
Robert Baldwin, chief executive for the ministry, said in an e-mail interview that the other decisions cited by Kentucky came in private lawsuits that the ministry intended to appeal.
Speaking before executives from the world's largest oil companies at a conference here on Monday, Thamir Ghadhban, the chief executive of the ministry, reported that the industry's revival was going far better than predicted, putting it on track to be pumping as much oil by April as before the war.
But ministry executives publicly disputed the minister, providing dates and times when she had been briefed.
Greg Wangerin, the interfaith ministries' executive director, said the agency resettled refugees from 44 countries in 2008, its busiest year to date.
The Rev. Dr. J. Edward Carothers, a retired minister and former chief executive of national ministries for the United Methodist Church, died on May 1 at his retirement home in Doylestown, Pa., near Philadelphia.
Nelson Machado, the planning ministry's executive secretary, will fill Mr. Mantega's post until a successor is named.
In an interview two weeks ago, just after sanctions were lifted, Thamir Ghadhban, interim chief executive of the oil ministry, said that Iraq would be exporting about a million barrels a day by mid-June.
An initial budget of R$25.5bn $11.4bnn) for stadiums, urban transportation, improvements in ports and airports, has risen to R$28bn, according to the sports ministry's executive secretary, Luiz Fernandes – almost three times the cost of Germany's World Cup in 2006.
