First Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government
Cabinet of the Syrian Arab Republic
Date formed	9 March 1963
Date dissolved	13 May 1963
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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

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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]

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

• 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

Works cited

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