List of Iraqi ambassadors to the United Nations
Ambassador of Iraq to the United Nations , more formally known as "Permanent Representative of the Republic of Iraq" leads Iraq delegation to the United Nations in New York City .[ 1]
The current Chargé d’Affaires ad interim is Dr. Abbas Kadhim Obaid.[ 2]
Office holders The following is a chronological list of those who have held the office:
#
Name
Years served
UN Secretary-General
Prime Minister of Iraq
Iraqi Republic (1958–1968)
1
Ismat T. Kittani (acting)
1958–59
Dag Hammarskjöld
Abd al-Karim Qasim
2
Adnan Pachachi
1959–65
Dag Hammarskjöld , U Thant
Abd al-Karim Qasim , Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr , Tahir Yahya
3
Khadim Kahlaf
1965–67
U Thant
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq , Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz , Naji Talib , Abdul Rahman Arif , Tahir Yahya
4
Adnan Pachachi
1967–69
U Thant
Tahir Yahya
Ba'athist Iraq (1968–2003)
4
Adnan Pachachi
1967–69
U Thant
Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif , Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
5
Adnan Raouf (acting)
1969–70
U Thant
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
6
Talib el-Shibib
1970–72
U Thant , Kurt Waldheim
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
7
Abdul Karim al-Shaikhly
1972–74
Kurt Waldheim
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
8
Salah Omar al-Ali
1980–82
Kurt Waldheim , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Saddam Hussein
9
Riyadh al-Qaysi
1983–86
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Saddam Hussein
10
Ismat T. Kittani
1986–89
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Saddam Hussein
11
Abdul Amir al-Anbari
1990–92
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Saddam Hussein , Sa'dun Hammadi , Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi
12
Nizar Hamdoon
1992–98
Boutros Boutros-Ghali , Kofi Annan
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi , Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai , Saddam Hussein
13
Saeed H. Hasan
1999–2000
Kofi Annan
Saddam Hussein
14
Mohammed A. Aldouri
2001–03
Kofi Annan
Saddam Hussein ,
Republic of Iraq (2003–2022)
15
Samir Sumaidaie
2004–06
Kofi Annan
Ayad Allawi , Ibrahim al-Jaafari , Nouri al-Maliki
16
T. Hamid al Bayati
2007–13
Ban Ki-moon
Nouri al-Maliki
17
Mohamed Ali Alhakim
2013–18
Ban Ki-moon , António Guterres
Nouri al-Maliki , Haider al-Abadi
18
Mohammed Hussein Bahr al-Uloom
2018–2022
António Guterres
Haider al-Abadi , Adil Abdul-Mahdi , Mustafa Al-Kadhimi , Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani
19
Abbas Kadhim Obaid (acting)
2022–present
António Guterres
Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani
See also
References
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