The Kyrgyz parliament approved a bill on the new Cabinet's makeup and Bakiyev signed the bill into law Tuesday.
The president appointed Daniyar Usenov the first deputy prime minister, who held this post in the previous Cabinet.
Nur uulu Dosbol, the country's former minister of education and sciences, was appointed the deputy prime minister. The previous government chief-of-staff, with the rank of minister, Turuspek Koyenaliyev, was replaced by the presidential decree with former Deputy Prime Minister Tynychbek Tabyldiyev.
The former head of the agency on drugs control, Bolotbek Nogoibayev, replaced Omurbek Suvanaliyev in the post of interior minister. Ismail Isakov kept his post as defense minister in the new Cabinet.
Under the new system, the Central Asian nation's Cabinet will be headed by the prime minister, the first deputy prime minister and one deputy prime minister. It will include the government chief-of-staff, with the rank of minister.
There will be 14 ministries and five committees, including the ministries of finance, justice, defense, interior affairs, and emergency situations, as well as committees for state defense, migration and employment, and customs.
The new structure also comprises 12 agencies that will report directly to the prime minister, including agencies for religious affairs, tourism, architecture and construction, sports, technology, state procurements, environmental protection, and antimonopoly policy.
In late January, parliament approved Azim Isabekov as prime minister, following a standoff between the president and lawmakers.
Bakiyev nominated Isabekov, who was then serving as agriculture minister, after MPs twice rejected the candidacy of former premier Felix Kulov, who resigned late last year after mass protests in the impoverished ex-Soviet state that forced through a series of amendments to the Constitution.
