Acting PM Vows Cabinet Line-up Next Week

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Acting Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko said on Tuesday he would submit the line-up of his cabinet to President Boris Yeltsin within a week whether or not parliament approves him on Friday, Interfax news agency said. Interfax quoted Kiriyenko as saying this would be done under a personal agreement with Yeltsin. Under the constitution a new prime minister has a week to form his government after parliamentary approval. Yeltsin sacked the previous government on March 23 and told Kiriyenko, until then energy minister, to form a new cabinet. Yeltsin warned parliament he would dissolve the legislature if it rejected his prime minister-designate three times. In a move to head off an outright confrontation with the State Duma, the lower house, the Kremlin leader invited key political forces to a round-table meeting on Tuesday to discuss the new cabinet. Yeltsin asked the opposition-dominated Duma to back Kiriyenko but made clear he would not allow a coalition government based on the balance of forces in the chamber. Voting on Kiriyenko's candiday is due on Friday. Interfax quoted Kiriyenko as saying the participants at Tuesday's meeting put forward the names of various people they would like to see in the new government but added that they had not tried to force their choices on him.