Gamal Abdul Nasser with his new government at the gates of the Presidential Palace in Damascus in 1958President Nasser is standing with Syrian and Egyptian cabinet members of the UAR. Second from left is the socialist leader Akram al-Hawrani, who became Vice-President of the UAR. Next to him is Abdul Latiff al-Baghdadi, the Egyptian Vice-President, followed by Nasser, Marshal Abdul Hakim Amer, who became Governor of Syria, and Sabri al-Asali, his other Syrian Vice-President. Then stands Fakhir al-Kayyali, the Minister of Economy. Standing to the far right is the Baath Party co-founder Salah al-Bitar. In the middle row, second from left, is Abdul Hamid Sarraj, who became Minister of Interior in the UAR.
