Third Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government

Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government
Cabinet of the Syrian Arab Republic
Date formed	14 May 1963
Date dissolved	11 November 1963
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Head of state	Amin al-Hafiz (As President of the NCRC)
Head of government	Salah al-Din al-Bitar
Member party	Ba'ath Party
History
Predecessor	Second Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government
Successor	First Amin al-Hafiz Government

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The Third Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government ruled Syria from May to October 1964. The Cabinet of Syria led by then-Prime Minister Salah al-Din al-Bitar. This government was the 62nd since Syria gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1918.^[1]

It was formed on August 4, 1963, by Decree No. 781 issued by the NCRC and dissolved on November 11, 1963, The cabinet was composed of Ba'athists and unionist independents.^[2] Bitar's third cabinet was the first in Syria's history which the Ba'athists controlled the government.^[2]

Ministers

• Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Prime Minister and Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Dr. Nur al-Din al-Atassi, Minister of Interior
• Mustafa al-Shamaa, Minister of Finance
• Major General Mamdouh Jaber, Minister of Defense
• Mazhar al-Anbari, Minister of Justice and Minister of Awqaf
• Mansur al-Atrash, Minister of Labour
• Dr. Adel Tarbin, Minister of Agriculture
• Shakir al-Faham, Minister of Education
• Dr. George Tohme, Minister of Economy
• Dr. Sami al-Jundi, Minister of Information and Minister of Culture
• Major General Ghassan Haddad, Minister of Planning
• Salih al-Mahamid, Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs
• Mahmud Jayush, Minister of Supply
• Ahmed Abu Saleh, Minister of Transport and Minister of Public Works
• Shibli al-Aysami, Minister of Agrarian Reform
• Dr. Ibrahim Makhus, Minister of Health
• Dr. Nur al-Din al-Rifai, Minister of Industry
• Dr. Abd al-Khaliq al-Naqshbandi, Minister of State for NCRC Presidential Affairs

References

Works cited

• Rabinovich, Itamar (1972). Syria Under the Baʻth, 1963–66: The Army Party Symbiosis. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0-7065-1266-9.