DAMASCUS — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday named a woman to head the economy and trade ministry, the state-run SANA news agency reported.
Lamia Assi will replace Amer Hosni Lotfi who was appointed head of the state planning authority, the agency said.
Assi is the latest woman to join the government after Kawkab al-Sabah Dayeh, who became environment minister in a shake-up in April 2009. A third woman Diala Haj-Aref heads the social affairs and labor ministry.
SANA gave no reason for the latest reshuffle, the seventh of its kind since Prime Minister Naji Otri first formed his cabinet in September 2003.
The new economy and trade minister is a mother of three who had been Syria's ambassador to Malaysia from 2004 until the time of her nomination.
Assi, 55, was also deputy finance minister from 2002 until 2004.
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