Bayan Jaber leaves Damascus shortly for Baghdad
Iraq-Syria, Politics, 9/8/2003

The only Iraqi minister, who lives in Syria, Bayan Baqer Soulagh Jaber al-Zubeidi will leave for Baghdad after two days to assume his post as a minister of building up and construction in the new Iraqi government, which was declared on September first.

Baqer Soulagh, better known as Bayan Jaber, occupies a seat for the Turkmans and the Shiite in the government because he is of Turkman origin in addition to his being a former representative of the "higher council of the Islamic revolution" in Syria and Lebanon.

Jaber has been living in Syria since 1984. He has been often moving between Tehran and Damascus in addition to several visits to Europe.

Jaber was known for his media activity and the numerous press statements he had made. He proposed an initiative for Saddam to resign before the American war against Iraq for many months. Jaber said he did not meet with Syrian officials in his capacity as a minister yet because he did not take his legal oath before the governing council.

Jaber, however, is the only Iraqi minister who lives in Syria, but large number of the ministers are known for living a while in Damascus especially the representatives of the higher council, al-Dawa' party, the two main Kurdish parties and the Iraqi communist Party. The Iraqi embassy in Syria held a farewell reception for the former opposition members and new minister.

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