Ahmad Hassan (born 1947) is a Syrian diplomat and politician who served as information minister from 2003 to 2004.

Early life

Hassan hails from an Alawi family based in

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. He was born, in 1947, in a village near Lattakia and later moved to Baniyas.

Career

Hassan served as the head of the first Baathist school in the 1960s. He is a member of Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and close to former vice president

Abdul Halim Khaddam Abdul Halim Khaddam ( ; ar, عبد الحليم خدام; 15 September 1932 – 31 March 2020) was a Syrian politician who was Vice President of Syria and "High Commissioner" to Lebanon from 1984 to 2005. He was long known as a loyalist of Hafez ...

. He was also an auxiliary-member of the National Leadership until 1984 when then president Hafez Assad removed the Khaddam faction from the Leadership. Hassan served as Syria's ambassador to

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for a long time since the early 1990s until being replaced by Hamid Hassan in May 2003. He was appointed information minister to the Syrian cabinet in 2003 and replaced Adnan Omran in the post. Hassan's term ended in October 2004, and he was succeeded by Mahdi Dakhlallah as information minister.

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