Third Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government

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]

Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government
Cabinet of the Syrian Arab Republic
Date formed	14 May 1963
Date dissolved	11 November 1963
People and organisations
President	Amin al-Hafiz (As President of the NCRC)
Vice President	Muhammad Umran
Prime Minister	Salah al-Din al-Bitar
Deputy Prime Minister	None
Chairman of the National Revolutionary Council	Mansur al-Atrash
Member party	Ba'ath Party
History
Predecessor	Second Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government
Successor	First Amin al-Hafiz Government

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