Hilal Al Atrash | |
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Minister of Local Administration | |
In office December 2000 –April 2009 | |
President | Bashar al-Assad |
Prime Minister | Mohammed Mustafa Mero |
Succeeded by | Tamer Al Hijeh |
Personal details | |
Nationality | Syrian |
Political party | Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Hilal Al Atrash is a Syrian engineer and politician who served as minister of local administration and environment from 2001 to 2009.
Atrash is an engineer by training. [1] In November 2000,he was appointed governor of the Quneitra province,which was his first governorship. [2] He was a member of the Baath party,being part of the reformist wing. [3] He was appointed minister of local administration on 13 December 2000 to the cabinet headed by then prime minister Mohammed Mustafa Mero,which was reshuffled after Hafez al-Assad's death. [4] [5] Atrash's term ended in a cabinet reshuffle in April 2009 and he was succeeded by Tamer Al Hijeh. [6] Then he was named Syrian ambassador to Libya. [7]