Attas Cabinet

The Attas Cabinet was the first Council of Ministers of the Republic of Yemen following the unification of North and South Yemen on 22 May 1990. It was headed by Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, a senior figure in the Yemeni Socialist Party and former Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Council of South Yemen. The cabinet was formed on 24 May 1990 and served until 29 May 1994.
Composed of 40 ministers, the Attas Cabinet was a power-sharing government that brought together officials from both the Yemen Arab Republic and the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, in an effort to integrate the political and administrative structures of the formerly separate states.
The government oversaw the early years of unification, during which time Yemen adopted its constitution and held its first multi-party parliamentary elections in 1993. However, the cabinet government faced mounting political tensions between northern and southern factions, culminating in the 1994 civil war. The cabinet was dismissed by President Ali Abdullah Saleh at the outbreak of the conflict, which ultimately resulted in the defeat of southern forces.