Date : 14/04/2011
DAMASCUS, April 14 (KUNA) -- Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad issued a
decree Thursday on the formation of the new government led by Dr. Adel Safar
to succeed the government of former Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Otri.
The decree provides for the appointment of Lt. Gen. Ali Habib as the
Minister of Defense, Walid Al-Moallem as Minister of Foreign and Expatriate
Affairs, Sufian Alao as Minister of Oil and Mineral Wealth, Dr. Emad
Abdulghani Al-Sabuni as Minister of Communications and Technology, Dr.
Mohammad Abdulsattar Al-Sayed as Minister of Awqaf, and Omar Ibrahim
Ghalawanji as Minister of Local Administration.
Further, Mansour Fadallah Azzam as Minister of Presidential Affairs, Lamia
Marie Aasi as Tourism Minister, Dr. Mohammad Riad Hussein Essmat as Culture
Minister, Dr. George Malki Soumi as Irrigation Minister, Taysir Awad as
Minister of Justice, Dr. Riad Fareed Hijab as Minister of Agriculture, Dr.
Radwan Al-Habib as Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, Dr. Abdulrazeq Sheikh
Eissa as Minister of Higher Education, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ibrahim Al-Sha'ar as
Minister of Interior, Dr. Mohammad Al-Jalilati, Dr. Mohammad Nidal Al-Shaar as
Minister of Economy, Saleh Al-Rashed as Minister of Education.
The cabinet line-up also include Dr. Wael Nader Al-Halki as Minister of
Health, Hala Mohammad Al-Nasser as Minister of Housing and Construction, Dr.
Faisal Abbas as Minister of Transport, Imad Mohammad Deeb Khamis as Minister
of Electricity, Dr. Adnan Hassan Mahmoud as Minister of Information, Adnan
Salakho as Minister of Industry, Dr. Kawkab Al-Sabah Daya as State Minister
for Environmental Affairs, Youssef Suleiman Ahmad as State Minister, Ghiyath
Jaratli as State Minister, Hussein Mahmoud Farazat as State Minister, Joseph
Sweid as State Minister, and Hassan Al-Sari as State Minister.
The Syrian President also issued a decree provides for establishment of the
Ministry of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs to replace the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, and the Ministry of Expatriates, while the single phrase of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates will replace the two phrases of
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Expatriates at all implemented
legislative and executive texts.
The same decree stipulates that the Ministry of Foreign and Expatriate
Affairs will take over the tasks that were carried out before by the both
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Expatriates in accordance with the
implemented legislations, while all rights and funds of the two
above-mentioned ministries will be referred to the new ministry.
The same decree provides for, "all property owned by the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Expatriates is to be only possessed by
the Ministry of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs, while the Minister of Foreign
and Expatriates Affairs will supervise the distribution of the permanent
employees at the two former ministries to the posts of the new ministry
provided that he should keep their salaries and hierarchical order as it is
along with their invested interests, and all temporary, and seasonal workers
as well as contracted agents of the two former ministries should continue with
the same salaries and positions in the newly established ministry."
Finally, the decree stipulated that, "Minister of Finance is entitled
through agreement with Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs to fuse the
budgets of former Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Expatriates in
2011 into one budget under the name of budget of the Ministry of Foreign and
Expatriates Affairs. (end)
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