Muhammad Naji al-Otari ( ar, محمد ناجي عطري also ''Etri'', ''Itri'' and ''Otri'') (born 1944) is a
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
n politician who was
Prime Minister of Syria
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Nomination
The prime ...
from 2003 to 2011.
[Syrian cabinet resigns amid unrest, says state TV]
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, 29 March 2011
Early life and education
Born in
Aleppo
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in 1944, Otari studied
architecture
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and has a diploma in
urban planning
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from the
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. He is fluent in
French and
English
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Career
Otari headed the city council in Aleppo from 1983 to 1987 and is a former governor of
Homs
Homs ( , , , ; ar, حِمْص / ALA-LC: ; Levantine Arabic: / ''Ḥomṣ'' ), known in pre-Islamic Syria as Emesa ( ; grc, Ἔμεσα, Émesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate. It is Metres above sea level ...
. He was president of Aleppo's engineering syndicate from 1989 to 1993. He is a long-serving member of the ruling
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. In March 2000, he became a member of the Ba'ath Party's Central Committee and in June 2000 of the party's influential Regional Command. In March 2000, he was also appointed deputy prime minister for services affairs and he served in this post until 2003.
[ He was elected speaker of the Syrian parliament, or People's Assembly, in March 2003.]
Prime Minister
He was first appointed Prime Minister on 10 September 2003. His nomination has been said to combine both "technocratic and Ba'athist trends" in Syrian politics.[ On 3 April 2011, President Assad appointed ]Adel Safar
Adel Safar ( ar, عادل سفر, ʿĀdil Safar, born 1953) is a Syrian politician and academic, who served as Prime Minister of Syria from 14 April 2011 to 23 June 2012. His government was dissolved by Bashar al-Assad as a result of the Syrian ...
to succeed Otari.
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1944 births
Living people
Members of the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region
People from Aleppo
Prime Ministers of Syria
Speakers of the People's Assembly of Syria
Syrian Muslims
Ba'athist rulers
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