Ministry of Finance (Syria)

Government ministry of Syria

Ministry of Financeوزارة المالية

Emblem of Syria

Agency overview
Formed| 1918
Jurisdiction| Government of Syria
Headquarters| Damascus
Minister responsible|

* Mohammed Yisr Barnieh

Website| syrianfinance.gov.sy

Politics of Syria

Member State of the Arab League

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Constitution

* 2025 Interim Constitution
* Human rights

Executive

* President (list)

Ahmed al-Sharaa
* Council of Ministers
* Syrian transitional government

Legislature

* People's Assembly

Speaker: Vacant

Judiciary

* Supreme Judicial Council
* Supreme Constitutional Court

Subdivisions

* Governorates
* Districts
* Subdistricts (Nahiyas)
* Cities
* Villages

Elections

* Recent elections

* Presidential: 2014
* 2021
* Next

* Parliamentary: 2020
* 2024
* 2025

* Political parties

Foreign relations

* Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates

Minister: Asaad al-Shaibani

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* Diplomatic missions of / in Syria

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* Syrian nationality law
* Passport
* Visa requirements
* Visa policy

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* UN resolutions on Syria
* Status of the Golan Heights
* Syrian civil war

* Other countries

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The Ministry of Finance is a department of the Syrian Government.

## Responsibilities

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It is a ministry that deals with the preparation of the state's financial policies, the supervision of their implementation by monitoring and collecting public revenues to the state treasury, the supervision of the payment of state expenditures and organizations, and the preparation of the state budget. He is also responsible for managing public debt in cooperation with the Central Bank of Syria. [1]

## Ministers

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* Said Choucair, 1918-1920
* Fares al-Khoury, 1920
* Hamdi al-Nasr, 1920-1922
* Mohammed Ali Bey al-Abed, 1922-1925
* Jalal Zuhdi, 1925-1926
* Shaker Nemat Al-Shabani, 1926
* Abdul Qadir Al-Azm, 1926
* Hamdi al-Nasr, 1926-1928
* Jamil al-Ulshi, 1928-1931
* Tawfiq Shamia, 1931-1932
* Jamil Mardam, 1932-1933
* Shakir al-Shabani, 1933-1934
* Hinri Hindia, 1934-1936
* Edmond Al-Homsi, 1936
* Shukri al-Quwwatli,[2] 1936-1938
* Lutfi al-Haffar, 1938
* Fayez al-Khoury, 1939-1939
* Muhammad Khalil Mudaris, 1939
* Hosni al-Bitar, 1939-1941
* Nin Sehnaoui, 1941
* Fayez al-Khoury, 1941-1943
* Mustafa al-Shihabi, 1943
* Khalid al-Azm, 1943-1945
* Naim Antaki, 1945
* Khalid al-Azm, 1945
* Naim Antaki, 1945-1946
* Edmond Al-Homsi, 1946
* Said Ghazzi, 1946-1947
* Wehbe Hariri, 1947-1948
* Hassan Jabara, 1948-1949
* Khalid al-Azm,[2] 1949
* Abdul Rahman Al-Azm, 1949-1950
* Hassan Jabara, 1950
* Shakir Alas, 1950-1951
* Abdul Rahman Al-Azm, 1951
* Hassan al-Hakim, 1951
* Shakir Alas, 1951-1952
* Saeed al-Zaeem, 1952-1953
* George Shahin, 1953-1954
* Abdul Rahman Al-Azm, 1954
* Izzat al-Saqal, 1954
* Rizqallah Antaki, 1954-1955
* Lyon Zomria, 1955
* Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad, 1955-1956
* Sabri al-Asali, 1956
* Asad Mohsen, 1956-1958
* Fakhir Alkiali, 1958
* Abdel Wahab Homed, 1958-1960
* Naaman W. Azhari, 1961-1962[3]
* Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad, 1963
* Mustafa ash-Shamma, 1963-1964[4]
* Abd al-Fattah Bushi, 1964-1965[4]
* Muwaffaq al-Shurbaji,[5] 1965-1969
* Nurallah Nurallah,[5] 1969-1974
* Muhammad al-Sharif,[6] 1974-1976
* Sadiq al-Ayyubi,[7] 1976-1980
* Hamdi al-Saqqa, 1980-1985
* Qahtan al-Sioufi, 1985-1987
* Khalid al-Mahayni,[8] 1987-2001
* Mohammad al-Atrash, 2001-2003
* Mohammad al-Hussein,[9] 2003-2011
* Mohammad al Jililati,[10] 2011-2014
* Ismael Ismael, 2014-2016
* Maamoun Hamdan,[11] 2016-2020
* Kenan Yaghi,[11] 2020-2024
* Riad Abdul Ra'ouf, 2024
* Mohammed Abazaid, 2024-2025
* Mohammed Yisr Barnieh, 2025-present

## References

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1. ^ "Syrian Ministry of Finance".
2. ^ a b "Historical Dictionary of Syria - PDF Free Download". epdf.pub.
3. ^ "LAU announces its 2017 commencement honorary degree recipients | LAU News". 29 May 2017.
4. ^ a b Rabinovic, Itamar (March 14, 1972). Syria Under the BaÊ»th, 1963-66: The Army Party Symbiosis. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9780706512663 – via Google Books.
5. ^ a b Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. 1969Mar-June,Aug,Oct-Dec. 2003. hdl:2027/osu.32435065185043 – via HathiTrust.
6. ^ Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. 1976Jan-June. 2003. hdl:2027/osu.32435024020000 – via HathiTrust.
7. ^ Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. 1976:Oct.-Dec. 2003\. hdl:2027/uiug.30112083084100 – via HathiTrust.
8. ^ "Former finance minister: the actual spending need does not exceed 50 percent of the 2020 budget .. The deficit is unrealistic". commercialsy.com.
9. ^ "Syria gets new cabinet". www.aljazeera.com.
10. ^ "Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
11. ^ a b "Challenges facing new names in the Syrian regime's ministries… Will they succeed?". Enab Baladi. September 11, 2020.

## See also

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* Government ministries of Syria
* Central Bank of Syria
* Economy of Syria

## External links

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* Official website
* Ministry of Finance on Facebook
* Ministry of Finance on Instagram

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