{"id":2189,"date":"2012-08-07T08:40:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T08:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2012-08-07T08:40:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T08:40:25","slug":"syrian-prime-minister-defects-to-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2012\/08\/07\/2189\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian prime minister &#8216;defects to Jordan&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news1\/riaz_hijab.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Riad Farid Hijab, the Syrian prime minister, has fled the country, activists say, after state television reported that he was sacked this morning.  <!--more-->  <br \/>The former prime minister arrived in Jordan after being smuggled across the border, Jordanian authorities confirmed to Al Jazeera on Monday.<br \/>President Bashar al-Assad appointed Hijab, a former agriculture minister, on June 23, following a parliamentary election in May.<br \/>Omar Ghaliwanji, Syria&#8217;s deputy prime minister, has been chosen to lead a caretaker government, state media reported on Monday.<br \/>Authorities hailed the May poll as being a major step towards political reform, but the opposition movement against Assad&#8217;s government dismissed them as a sham.<br \/>Hijab had been a part of the Baath party command since 1998, and was appointed as the head of the Latakia governate when anti-government protests first broke out there last year.<br \/>Such sackings are a common way for state television to react when an official has defected.<br \/>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Rula Amin, reporting from Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon, said that while Hijab was not a key member of Assad&#8217;s inner circle, were he to join the opposition he would be the most high-profile official to have rejected Assad&#8217;s authority.<br \/>George Jabbour, a past advisor to former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, told Al Jazeera that the development was &#8220;certainly significant&#8221;.<br \/><em><br \/>Source: Al Jazeera And Agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riad Farid Hijab, the Syrian prime minister, has fled the country, activists say, after state television reported that he was sacked this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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