President Nazem al-Qudsi in 1961-1962

President Nazim al-Qudsi in two rare videos. In one he is welcoming the Iraqi Foreign Minister Hashem Jawad at the Presidential Palace in Damascus on January 23, 1962. The second video is of President Qudsi arriving at the Syrian Parliament on December 18, 1961 for his swearing-in-ceremony. He is greeted by a standing ovation of Syria's deputies in the first Parliament created after dissolving the Syrian-Egyptian union on September 28, 1961. President Qudsi was the first president to be elected after the downfall of the United Arab Republic (UAR) in 1961 and the last to rule in the civilian era since he was ousted by the Baath Party in a military coup d'etat on March 8, 1963.