Muhammad Ali al-Halabi

Prime Minister of SyriaIn office
27 March 1978 – 9 January 1980PresidentHafez al-AssadPreceded byAbdul Rahman KhleifawiSucceeded byAbdul Rauf al-KasmSpeaker of the People's Assembly of SyriaIn office
27 June 1973 – 9 March 1978Preceded byFahmi al-YusufiSucceeded byMahmoud HadidDamascus GovernorIn office
1969–1971Preceded byMohamed SioufiSucceeded byMuhammad Yassin al-OstaMember of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional BranchIn office
13 November 1970 – 7 January 1980 Personal detailsBorn1937 (1937)
Damascus, SyriaDied19 September 2016(2016-09-19) (aged 78–79)
Damascus, SyriaPolitical partySyrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath PartyOther political
affiliationsNational Progressive FrontSpouseLamis Mourad

Muhammad Ali al-Halabi (Arabic: محمد علي الحلبي, romanized: Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Ḥalabī;‎ 1937 – 19 September 2016) was a Syrian politician.

Biography

After finishing his training at the National Teacher Training Institute, Muhammed studied Philosophy at the University of Damascus. In 1955 he became a teacher on the Golan and from 1959 to 1964 he was employed as a teacher in Kuwait. From 9 June 1973 to 27 March 1978 he was chairman and spokesman for the National Council. He served as Prime Minister of Syria from March 27, 1978 to January 9, 1980 under the presidency of Hafez al-Assad. al-Halabi was an ambassador in Moscow from 1982 to 1990, during which Hafiz al-Assad and Leonid Brezhnev made an agreement, to install the Soviet S-75 in al-Dumayr and Shinshar.^[1]

Political career

Political offices
Preceded by Mohamed Sioufi	Damascus Governor 1969–1971	Succeeded by Muhammad Yassin al-Osta
Preceded by Fahmi al-Yusufi	Speaker of Parliament of Syria 1973–1978	Succeeded by Mahmoud Hadid
Preceded by Abdul Rahman Khleifawi	Prime Minister of Syria 1978–1980	Succeeded by Abdul Rauf al-Kasm
Preceded by Jabr al-Kafri	Ambassador of Syria to the Soviet Union 1982–1990	Succeeded by Issam al-Naeb

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