Interim president Adly Mansour swears in 35 ministers with three deputy prime ministers a day after clashes left 7 dead.
The new Egyptian cabinet has been sworn in along with the interim prime minister and his deputies.
Interim President Adly Mansour is swore in the 35 ministers with three deputy prime ministers during a quick ceremony.
Interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi is putting together a cabinet largely of technocrats and liberals after the army toppled President Mohamed Morsi on July 3.
El-Beblawi had nominated five women for Cabinet posts, including the health, information and environment portfolios.
If confirmed, that would be the highest number of women to serve in ministerial posts in living memory.
Three women were sworn in on Tuesday.
Al Jazeera’s Nicole Johnston, reporting from Cairo, said that there were many familiar names in the new cabinet, with seven holding posts in the previous cabinet.
“It does very much look like this is a government of experts – a government of technocrats – which is exactly what the opposition groups were calling for,” said Johnston.
The Muslim Brotherhood immediately denounced the new cabinet.
“It’s an illegitimate government, an illegitimate prime minister, an illegitimate cabinet. We don’t recognise anyone in
it,” said Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad.
“We don’t even recognise their authority as representatives of the government.”
On Monday, seven people died and hundreds more were injured as police fought running battlesovernight with supporters of Morsi.
Egypt’s state news agency said 17 policemen were injured in the violence, and 401 people have been arrested in relation to the clashes.
Thousands of Morsi supporters were protesting to press their demands that Morsi be reinstated as president, because, they say, he was removed by a military coup that overturned democratic rule.
Militay urged to avoid ‘political’ arrests
The unrest came just hours after Under Secretary of State Bill Burns – the most senior US official to visit since the army toppled the elected Islamist president – appealed for an end to the violence rocking the Arab world’s most populous nation.
Presidential spokesman Ahmed al-Muslimani urged all of Egypt’s political forces, including Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, to take part in national reconciliation efforts.
His comments echoed calls by the US envoy a day earlier for dialogue to replace the violence.
“The first priority must be to end violence and incitement, prevent retribution, and begin a serious and substantive dialogue among all sides and all political parties,” Burns said after meeting the general behind the coup, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and the military-backed interim leaders.
He also urged the military to avoid “politically motivated arrests” amid growing international unease at the crackdown on the Brotherhood.
A US State Department spokeswoman confirmed Burns had not met any Brotherhood officials during his two-day visit.
The US envoy was also snubbed by the grassroots Tamarod movement which organised the mass protests against Morsi that led up to the coup, “because the United States did not stand with the Egyptian people from the beginning,” an
official from the group told the AFP news agency.
Burns declined to comment on Morsi’s continued detention.
Washington has refrained from saying Morsi was the victim of a coup, which would legally require a freeze on some $1.5bn in US military and economic assistance to Cairo.Al Jazeera’s Nicole Johnston, reporting from Cairo, said that riot police were involved in the clashes, while the military stood on the sidelines.
Last week, 53 pro-Morsi demonstrators were killed outside the Republican Guard compound in Cairo. Four soldiers also died in the clash.