Netanyahu to Be Sworn in As Israeli Foreign Minister on Wednesday

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Netanyahu to Be Sworn in As Israeli Foreign Minister on Wednesday

Former Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has agreed in a phone conversation with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to be sworn in on Wednesday as foreign minister, Israel Radio reported.

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Former Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has agreed in a phone conversation with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to be sworn in on Wednesday as foreign minister, Israel Radio reported.

Netanyahu announced Tuesday afternoon, hours after Sharon's announcement of early elections, his willingness to serve as foreign minister in Sharon's caretaker government.

"We know that we are in the toughest security situation, we knowwe are on eve of war in Iraq... I told the prime minister right nowthat I am willing... to take on the position of the foreign minister," he said.

Netanyahu welcomed the decision on early elections as the right choice for the country and predicted that the Likud party would sweep the elections.

Early in the day, Sharon announced that he would dissolve the parliament and call general elections within 90 days, saying the decision is the least damaging of available options.

Netanyahu agreed on Sunday in principle to take the offer by Sharon to serve as foreign minister, the post left vacant by Labor's Shimon Peres. But he also set a key precondition that Sharon agree to hold early elections and their cooperation continueafter the elections.

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