Egyptian Foreign Minister, Mohammed al-Orabi, has resigned as the Prime Minister, Essam Sharaf, is to unveil a new cabinet on Monday.

Egyptian Foreign Minister, Mohammed al-Orabi, has resigned as the Prime Minister, Essam Sharaf, is to unveil a new cabinet on Monday.

Orabi said he submitted his resignation \"to spare the prime minister any embarrassment during the current negotiations on the ministerial changes,\" the state-run MENA news agency reported.

Sharaf has been a caretaker PM since former President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular revolution last February.
Moves made by the PM aimed at appeasing protesters who has been in a week-long sit-in in central Cairo.

Sharaf has come under fire from dissidents, who once embraced him, for the slow pace of reforms since the revolt and for his limited powers under military rule.

The announcement of Orabi\'s resignation on state media came hours after Sharaf appointed veteran economist Hazem Beblawi and Ali al-Silmi, a leader of the liberal Wafd party, as his deputies.

The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces also issued a statement on its Facebook page late Saturday promising to restrict military trials to cases of rape, assaults on police and armed assaults.

One of the protesters\' key demands is an end to military trials of civilians, which have become the norm since Mubarak\'s ouster.

But the military\'s statement also warned that, while it would respect peaceful protests, it would not stand aside if protests damaged government or private property.