Mahmoud Zoubi

Mahmoud Zoubi ( Arabic محمود الزعبي Maḥmūd az-Zuʿbī ; * 1935 in the Rif Dimaschq governorate , Syrian Republic ; † May 21, 2000 in Damascus ) was a Syrian politician and Prime Minister for many years. Occasionally the romanization Zuhbi , Suabi , Zuabi , Zu'bi , Zubi or Subi was used.

Zoubi was a Muslim descendant of farmers from the Hauran region and was Prime Minister of Syria under President Hafiz al-Assad . He held this post from November 1, 1987 until his dismissal on March 7, 2000, and was a member of the Ba'ath Party and the National Progress Front, which it led .

During his tenure he attended the funeral of Khomeini in Tehran in 1989 , and his government waged war both in Lebanon in 1989/90 and against Iraq in 1991. In early 1992, the government issued a major amnesty, through which ex-President Nureddin al- Atassi came out of prison. In 1994 in Moscow, Zoubi reached a settlement of the soviet-era debt issue, tried to bring about a rejection front directed against the Palestinian-Israeli agreement and rejected secret negotiations offered by Israeli Prime Minister Rabin († 1995) about the return of the Golan Heights . Relations with Iraq did not normalize until 1997 . The economic decline and increasing social problems were Zoubi and his Minister of Economics Imadi u. a. because of the decline in oil production, however, not master, which led to its discontinuation in March 2000. About a dozen other ministers were replaced with them.

In May 2000 Zoubi committed because of corruption investigations against him suicidal .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Kifner: Syrians Vote To Confirm Assad's Son As President. In: The New York Times. July 11, 2000, accessed April 10, 2009 .