First Salah Al-din Al-bitar Government

First Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government
First Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government
; 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

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

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

First Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government
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