Farouk al-Sharaa
| Farouk al-Sharaa فاروق الشرع |
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| First Vice President of Syria | |
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Assumed office 21 February 2006 |
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| President | Bashar al-Assad |
| Preceded by | Abdul Halim Khaddam |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office March 1984 – 21 February 2006 |
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| President |
Hafez al-Assad Bashar al-Assad |
| Preceded by | Abdul-Halim Khaddam |
| Succeeded by | Walid Muallem |
| Member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch | |
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In office 21 June 2000 – 8 July 2013 |
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| Personal details | |
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10 December 1938 Damascus, Syria |
| Political party | Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
| Other political affiliations |
National Progressive Front |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Farouk al-Sharaa (Arabic: فاروق الشرع; born 10 December 1938) is a Syrian politician and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent officials in the Syrian government and served as foreign minister of Syria from 1984 until 2006 when he became Vice President of Syria.
Sharaa was born in Damascus on 10 December 1938 to a Sunni Muslim family that originates from the Daraa Governorate. He studied English language at the University of Damascus in the 1960s and in 1972 he took courses in international law at the University of London, also he soon earned a bachelor of arts degree.
In 1963, Sharaa became a member of the Baath party’s central committee. Until 1977 he served as the head of the state-run Syrian Arab Airlines in Dubai in the sixties and London. Between 1977 and 1980, he served as Syria's ambassador to Italy. In 1980 he was named deputy foreign minister. In 1984 Sharaa was appointed acting minister of informations. In March 1984, Hafez al-Assad, then president of Syria, named him foreign minister, a position that he held until February 2006.
Sharaa has remained an old guard of the Assad administration. He has been very active in negotiating with many countries to gain better relations for Syria. Much of this negotiation has involved Syria's relationships with Lebanon and Israel. Sharaa maintains that Israel should give back all the territory it took from Syria in the 1967 war. He was involved in two attempts to negotiate a reconciliation with Israel in 1991 and 2000.
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