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Bassam al-Sabbagh (Arabic: بسام الصباغ; born 1 January 1969) is a Syrian diplomat and politician who has been Foreign and Expatriates Minister of Syria since 2024. He also served as Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations in New York City from 2020 to 2023.
Sabbagh is former Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations Office at Vienna the United Nations Office at Vienna, its former permanent representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and its former permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Biography
He was born on 1 January 1969 in Aleppo, Syria. In 1993, graduated from the University of Aleppo as a specialist in international relations, and has a bachelor's degree in political science from the Higher Institute of Political Science in Damascus.
He also served as Syrian Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2020 to 2023. He addressed the General debate of the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2023. He was appointed as Foreign and Expatriates Minister on 23 September 2024.
Career
1994-1995 - Attaché in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Syria;
1995-2000 - Second, then First Secretary of the Syrian Embassy in Washington;
2000-2001 - Alternate Director in the Office of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs;
2001-2006 - Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Syria to the UN (New York);
2006-2010 - Head of Administration at the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
2010-2013 - Permanent Representative of Syria to the UN Office (Vienna).
2010-2020 - Ambassador to Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Italy.
2010-2020 - Resident Representative to the IAEA, UNIDO, UNODC (Vienna).
2013-2020 - Permanent Representative of Syria to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (The Hague).
2020-2023 - Head of the Syrian Mission at the UN Headquarters in New York.
2023-2024 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
2024-present - Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
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- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates (Syria)
- Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali government
- Qusay al-Dahhak
- Faisal Mekdad
- Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations
- Bab Al-Hara
- General debate of the seventy-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly
- Council of Ministers (Syria)