Abdul Halim Khaddam

His Excellency Abdul Halim Khaddam
عبدالحليم خدام‎
Khaddam in 1977
Acting President of Syria
In office 10 June 2000 – 17 July 2000
Prime Minister	Muhammad Mustafa Mero
Vice President	Rifaat al-Assad Himself Zuhair Masharqa
Preceded by	Hafez al-Assad
Succeeded by	Bashar al-Assad
9th Vice President of Syria
In office 11 March 1984 – 6 June 2005 Serving with Rifaat al-Assad and Zuhair Masharqa
President	Hafez al-Assad Himself (acting) Bashar al-Assad
Preceded by	Mahmoud al-Ayyubi
Succeeded by	Farouk al-Sharaa
14th Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 5 July 1970 – 1 March 1984
Prime Minister	See list Nureddin al-Atassi Hafiz al-Assad Abdul Rahman Khleifawi Mahmoud al-Ayyubi Abdul Rahman Khleifawi Muhammad Ali al-Halabi Abdul Rauf al-Kasm
Preceded by	Mustapha al-Said
Succeeded by	Farouk al-Sharaa
Member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch
In office 13 November 1970 – 6 June 2005
Personal details
Born	(1932-09-15)15 September 1932 Baniyas, First Syrian Republic
Died	31 March 2020(2020-03-31) (aged 87) Paris, France
Political party	Ba'ath (1984–2006) National Salvation Front (2006–2020)

Abdul Halim Khaddam (/ˈɑːbdəl həˈliːm kəˈdæm/ ^ⓘ AHB-dəl hə-LEEM kə-DAM; Arabic: عبد الحليم خدام;‎ 15 September 1932 – 31 March 2020)^[1] was a Syrian politician who served as interim President of Syria in 2000 as well as the Vice President of Syria and the Syrian High Commissioner to Lebanon from 1984 to 2005. He was a long known loyalist of Hafez al-Assad under the Ba'athist regime in Syria after the Corrective Movement in 1970.^[2] He resigned from his position and left the country in 2005 in protest against certain policies of Hafez's son and successor, Bashar al-Assad. He accumulated substantial wealth while in office: a Credit Suisse account in his name, opened in 1994, had nearly 90 million Swiss francs in September 2003, per Suisse secrets. This puts Khaddam and his family's net worth at $1.1 billion,^[3] making them one of the wealthiest and most influential political families in the Middle East.