The First Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government ruled Syria from March to May 1963. The Cabinet of Syria was led by then-Prime Minister Salah al-Din al-Bitar.[1] This government was the 60th since Syria gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and the country's first Baathist government.[2]
First Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government | |
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Cabinet of the Syrian Arab Republic | |
Date formed | 9 March 1963 |
Date dissolved | 13 May 1963 |
People and organisations | |
Head of state | Lu'ay al-Atassi (As President of the NCRC) |
Head of government | Salah al-Din al-Bitar Sami al-Jundi (interim) |
Deputy head of government | Nihad al-Qasim |
Member party | Ba'ath Party |
History | |
Predecessor | Khalid al-Azm Government |
Successor | Second Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government |
It was formed on March 9 by decree of the NCRC one day after the triumph of the 1963 Syrian coup d'état and dissolved two months later.[3] All vital ministries except the defense ministry— which was headed by independent Nasserite General Muhammad al-Sufi—were given to Ba'athists.[3]
Ministers
edit- Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Prime Minister and Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Nihad al-Qasim, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice
- Dr. Abd al-Wahhab Humed, Minister of Finance
- General Muhammad al-Sufi, Minister of Defense
- General Amin al-Hafiz, Minister of Interior
- Mansur al-Atrash, Minister of Labour
- Dr. Abd al-Halim Sweidan, Minister of Agriculture
- Dr. Sami al-Drubi, Minister of Education
- Dr. Abd al-Karim Zuhur, Minister of Economy
- Jamal al-Atassi, Minister of Information
- Darwish al-Alwani, Interim Minister of State
- Hani al-Hindi, Minister of Planning
- Talib al-Walid, Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs
- Sami Sufan, Minister of Supply
- Jihad Dahi, Minister of Transport
- Ahmed Abu Saleh, Minister of Public Works
- Shibli al-Aysami, Minister of Agrarian Reform
- Dr. Ibrahim Makhus, Minister of Health
- Talib Damad, Minister of Industry
- Dr. Sami al-Jundi, Minister of Culture
References
editWorks cited
edit- Rabinovich, Itamar (1972). Syria Under the Baʻth, 1963–66: The Army Party Symbiosis. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0-7065-1266-9.