Fifth Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government
Fifth Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government | |
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 Cabinet of the Syrian Arab Republic | |
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| Date formed | 1 January 1966 |
| Date dissolved | 23 February 1966 |
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| Head of state | Amin al-Hafiz |
| Head of government | Salah al-Din al-Bitar |
| Deputy head of government | Adnan Shuman Rais al-Farhan al-Fayyad |
| Member party | Ba'ath Party |
| History | |
| Predecessor | First Yusuf Zuayyin Government |
| Successor | Second Yusuf Zuayyin Governmentt |
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The Fifth Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government ruled Syria from January to February 1966. The Cabinet of Syria led by then-Prime Minister Salah al-Din al-Bitar. This government was the 73rd since Syria gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1918.[1]
It was formed on January 1, 1966, and abruptly dissolved on February 23, 1966. This government was overthrown between 21 and 23 February 1966 in a coup d'état.[2] The ruling National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party were removed from power by a union of a regionalists led by Salah Jadid.[3]
Ministers
[edit]- Dr. Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Prime Minister and Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Dr. Adnan Shuman, Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs and Labour
- Rais al-Farhan al-Fayyad, Deputy Prime Minister for Peninsula and Euphrates Affairs
- Muwaffaq al-Sharbaji, Minister of Finance
- Fahmy al-Ashuri, Minister of Interior
- Major General Muhammad Umran, Minister of Defense
- Dr. Muhammad al-Fadil, Minister of Justice
- Jamil Thabit, Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour
- Dr. Salah Wazzan, Minister of Agriculture
- Dr. Abdullah Abd al-Dayim, Minister of Education
- Dr. Kamal Hosni, Minister of Economy
- Shakir Mustafa, Minister of Information
- Dr. Abd al-Wahhab Khayatah, Minister of Planning
- Mahmud Tijar, Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs
- Kamal Shahadih, Minister of Supply
- Dr. Ahmed Badr al-Din, Minister of Transport
- Samih Fakhury, Minister of Public Works
- Jamil Haddad, Minister of Agrarian Reform
- Dr. Hanin Sayyaj, Minister of Health
- Hisham al-Aas, Minister of Industry
- Asaad Darqawi, Minister of Culture
- Mahmoud Arab Said, Minister of Awqaf
- Major General Mahmud Jabir, Minister for Presidential Affairs
- Bashir Qutb, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
- Yusuf Khabbaz, Minister of State Governance and Tourism
- Nazzal Diri, Minister of State for Peninsula and Euphrates Affairs
References
[edit]- ^ List of Syrian governments pministry.gov.sy
- ^ Rabinovich 1972.
- ^ "Salah Jadid, 63, Leader of Syria Deposed and Imprisoned by Assad (Published 1993)". The New York Times. Associated Press. 1993-08-24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
Works cited
[edit]- Rabinovich, Itamar (1972). Syria Under the Baʻth, 1963–66: The Army Party Symbiosis. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0-7065-1266-9.