Attas Cabinet

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Attas Cabinet
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1st Council of Ministers of Yemen
1990–1994
Date formed24 May 1990 (1990-05-24)
Date dissolved29 May 1994 (1994-05-29)
People and organisations
President Ali Abdullah Saleh
Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
First Deputy Prime Minister Hassan Muhammad Makki
No. of ministers40
Member parties  General People's Congress
  Yemeni Socialist Party
  Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
Status in legislature Majority (Coalition)
Opposition parties  Al-Islah
  Party of Truth
  NUPO
  Nasserist Reform Organisation
  Democratic Nasserist Party
History
Election 1993 parliamentary election
Legislature term1st Legislature
Successor Abdulghani Cabinet

The Attas Cabinet was the first Council of Ministers of the Republic of Yemen following the unification of North and South Yemen on 22 May 1990. It was headed by Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, a senior figure in the Yemeni Socialist Party and former Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Council of South Yemen. The cabinet was formed on 24 May 1990 and served until 29 May 1994. [1]

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Composed of 40 ministers, the Attas Cabinet was a power-sharing government that brought together officials from both the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) and the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen), in an effort to integrate the political and administrative structures of the formerly separate states.

The government oversaw the early years of unification, during which time Yemen adopted its constitution and held its first multi-party parliamentary elections in 1993. However, the cabinet government faced mounting political tensions between northern and southern factions, culminating in the 1994 civil war. The cabinet was dismissed by President Ali Abdullah Saleh at the outbreak of the conflict, which ultimately resulted in the defeat of southern forces.

Composition

PortfolioMinisterTookofficeLeftofficeParty
Prime Minister 24 May 199029 May 1994  YSP
First Deputy Prime Minister 24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Deputy Prime Minister for Interior Affairs
Mujahed Abu Shawarib
24 May 199029 May 1994  Ba'ath Party
Deputy Prime Minister for Defense and Security Affairs
Saleh Obaid Ahmed
24 May 199029 May 1994  YSP
Deputy Prime Minister for Manpower Development
Mohammed Haydarah Masdus
24 May 199029 May 1994  YSP
Minister of Construction and Development24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of Defense
Haitham Qasem Taher
24 May 199029 May 1994  YSP
Minister of Interior 24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of Finance 24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of Information
Mohammed Ahmed Jurhum
24 May 199029 May 1994  YSP
Minister of Electricity and Water
Abdulwahab Mahmoud
24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of Youth and Sports
Mohammed al-Kabab
24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of Civil Service and Administration Reform24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of Public Health
Mohammed Ali Muqbel
24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of Justice
Abdulwasa Salam
24 May 199029 May 1994  YSP
Minister of Insurance, Social Affairs and Labor
Ahmed Luqman
24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of Culture 24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of Tourism
Mahmoud al-Arasi
24 May 199029 May 1994  YSP
Minister of Religious Endowments and Guidance
Mohsen Mohammed al-Ulifi
24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation 24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of Transport
Saleh Abdullah Muthana
24 May 199029 May 1994  YSP
Minister of Legal Affairs
Mohammed Saeed Abdullah
17 May 200311 February 2006  YSP
Minister of Local Administration
Mohammed Saeed Abdullah
24 May 199029 May 1994  YSP
Minister of Fisheries Wealth
Salem Jubran
24 May 199029 May 1994  Independent
Minister of Telecommunications
Ahmed al-Ansi
24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of Trade
Fadhel Mohsen
24 May 199029 May 1994  YSP
Minister of Education
Mohammed al-Jayfi
24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of Expatriates Affairs
Saleh Munaser
24 May 199029 May 1994  YSP
Minister of State
Mohsen al-Hamdani
24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs
Yahya Hussein al-Arashi
24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs
Rashed Mohammed Thabet
24 May 199029 May 1994  GPC

See also

References

  1. "حكومة الأستاذ/ حيدر أبو بكر العطاس 1990م".