Abdullah al-Ahmar
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Abdullah al-Ahmar عبدالله الأحمر | |
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 Ahmar during an official visit to Romania in 1978 | |
| Assistant Secretary General of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party | |
| In office 17 November 1971 – 26 October 2018 | |
| President | Hafez al-Assad Bashar al-Assad |
| Preceded by | Hafez al-Assad |
| Succeeded by | Hilal Hilal |
| Member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch | |
| In office 13 November 1970 – 9 February 2005 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 June 1936 Al-Tall, French Mandate |
| Political party | Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (1954–1966) Syria-based Ba'ath Party (Syrian branch: (1966–2024) |
| Other political affiliations | National Progressive Front: (1972–2024) |
| Alma mater | University of Damascus |
Abdullah Al-Ahmar (Arabic: عبدالله الأحمر; born 6 June 1936)[1] is a Syrian politician and prominent member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
Biography
[edit]Born at Al-Tall, al-Ahmar joined the Ba'ath Party in the 1950s and graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Damascus in 1964. Soon after, he was appointed as a governor of Hama (1967–1969) then Idlib (1969–1970). In 1970, the regional Ba'ath conference elected him to the Syrian Regional Command together with Hafez Al-Assad after an internal coup in the party that expelled Salah Jadid's faction from power. A few months later, Assad's faction held a meeting and appointed a new National Command that elected Assad as a general secretary and Ahmar his deputy. This National Command is competing with another one that was based in Iraq on being the sole legitimate National Command.
In 1980, al-Ahmar was re-elected with Assad into the same positions they held since 1971. Since the death of Assad in 2000, Ahmar became the highest ranked Ba'ath member in Syria, while Bashar al-Assad is the general-secretary of the Syrian Regional Command.
On 25 July 2013, al-Ahmar was the head of a Ba'ath Party delegation visiting North Korea.[2]
At the 14th Conference of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in 2017, Bashar al-Assad was elected the Secretary General of the National Council, replacing al-Ahmar.[3] A year later, he stepped down from his position as Assistant Secretary General, handing it over to Hilal Hilal.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Comrade Abdullah Alahmar Assistant Secretary General of the Baath Arab Socialist Party". 3 September 2015. Archived from the original on 29 January 2021.
- ^ "Democratic Korean President stresses absolute solidarity with Syria". Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ^ "انعقاد المؤتمر القومي الرابع عشر لحزب البعث.. الهلال: قرارات المؤتمر تساعد في الانتقال إلى عمل قومي مميز- فيديو". Syrian Arab News Agency. 14 May 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
- ^ شبكة عاجل الإخبارية. "هلال هلال أمينا قطريا مساعدا لحزب البعث.. وإحداث مكتب جديد للشباب في القيادة القطرية" (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 22 March 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
Sources
[edit]- Abdullah Al-Ahmar(in Arabic).
- TV Interview on YouTube (in Arabic)
- Second Baath party figure arrested in Syria, archive.today. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
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