New Syrian government to have persons able to implement reform agenda
Syria, Politics, 3/3/2001

Observers in Syria expected the Syrian prime minister Muhammad Mustafa Miro to submit his government's resignation to President Bashar al-Assad within days.

The observers think that selections of members of the new government will be made according qualifications rather than " academic degrees " and will be harmonized to be a united work team that seeks to implement the executive department plans in the coming phase.

News rumored to this effect say that the current minister of education Mahmoud al-Sayed will replace the minister of culture Maha Qanout and the minister of state for administrative development affairs Hassan al-Nouri will be a minister of state for coordination affairs with officials in several countries of remarkable relations with Syria like Lebanon, or in a position of the assistant secretary general of the Syrian- Lebanese higher council which is presided at the meantime by the Lebanese Nasri al-Khouri; and the minister of state for planning Issam al-Zaem to be transferred to a ministry of technical nature, and also with the possibility of the Minister of transport to shift to al Zaem ministry and independent figures to occupy the positions of ministers of finance and the economy, including Nabil Sukkar and Riyad al-Abrash, respectively.

The sources added that it is expected that the number of independents will increase in the new government and also expected is the increase in the number of women at the ministry to have four instead of two as well as founding new ministries and naming one minister for more than one ministry in preparations to merge them.

The change will also cover ministries whose work was assessed as have not succeeded in their performance and that member of the Syrian Informatics society Sami al-Kheiyami is one of the new expected faces in the Cabinet. The change also expected to target the (six) ministers of the national progressive front.

It is also expected that some 18 ministers will be kept in the formation of the new government and that changes will cover the other 15 ministers and also basic ministers ( who are members of the party's leadership) are also expected to stay in their posts.

Meantime, the Lebanese daily al-Lewa' issued on Friday quoted press reports saying that the government of Miro will give its resignation within days and the new government will be announced after Eid al-Adha.

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