CAIRO, July 16 (Reuters) - Egypt's former investment minister Osama Saleh said on Tuesday he would take up the same post in the country's transitional government.

"I have accepted the position of investment minister," Saleh told reporters in Cairo.

Interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi is putting together a cabinet largely of technocrats and liberals after the army toppled President Mohamed Mursi on July 3.

(Writing by Alexander Dziadosz; Editing by Catherine Evans)