BAGHDAD, June 1 (Xinhuanet) -- The Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) on Tuesday chosen Ghazi Yawar as the new president of the country and appointed Ibrahim Jaafari and Rose Noori Shawis as his two deputies.

   Ghazi Yawar (president) -- 45, Sunni Muslim, head of thepowerful Shamar tribe which groups both Sunnis and Shiites. He was born in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. He lived for 15 years in Saudi Arabia where he worked in business, and returned to Iraq in June 2003.

   Ibrahim Jaafari (vice president) -- Shiite Muslim, spokesman for the fundamentalist Shiite Daawa party, the oldest Islamist movement in Iraq founded in 1957. A medic, he joined the Daawa movement in 1966. He fled the country when the party was banned in 1980. He was the IGC's first president in August.

   Rose Noori Shawis (vice president) -- Kurdish, from Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party which controls the northern Iraqi provinces of Arbil and Dohuk.  Enditem