Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations السفير والممثل الدائم لسوريا لدى الأمم المتحدة
Incumbent Qusay al-Dahhak since 20 December 2023
Style	His Excellency
Seat	New York, United States[1]
Appointer	President of Syria
Inaugural holder	Fares al-Khoury
Formation	1946
Website	Permanent Mission

The Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations is Syria's foremost diplomatic representative at the United Nations and the head of the Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic in New York City.[2]

List of heads of mission

The Permanent Representatives were the following:[3]

• 1946–1948: Fares al-Khoury
• 1951–1953: Farid Zeineddine
• 1953–1957: Rafik Asha
• 1962–1964: Salah el-Dine Tarazi
• 1964–1965: Rafik Asha[4]
• 1965–1972: George Tomeh[5]
• 1972–1975: Haissam Kelani[6]
• 1975–1978: Mowaffak Allaf[7]
• 1978–1981: Hammud al-Shufi[8]
• 1981–1986: Dia Allah El-Fattal[9]
• 1988–1990: Ahmad Fathi Al-Masri[10]
• 1990–1996: Dia Allah El-Fattal[11]
• 1996–2003: Mikhail Wehbe[12]
• 2003–2006: Faisal Mekdad[13]
• 2006–2020: Bashar Jaafari[14]
• 2020–2023: Bassam al-Sabbagh[15][16]
• 2023–present: Qusay al-Dahhak[17][18]

See also

• Foreign relations of Syria
• List of diplomatic missions of Syria
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates (Syria)

References

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15. "Presidential decrees naming Dr. Mikdad as Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Dr. al-Jaafari as Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister". Syrian Arab News Agency. 2020-11-22. Archived from the original on 2020-11-23. Retrieved 2020-11-23. President al-Assad also issued decree no. 324 providing for transferring Ambassador Bassam al-Sabbagh from the Syrian Embassy in Vienna to the Permanent Delegation in New York and accrediting him as Syria's Permanent Representative at the UN in New York.
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