Bassam al-Sabbagh | |
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بسام الصباغ | |
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
Assumed office 17 October 2023 | |
President | Bashar al-Assad |
Prime Minister | Hussein Arnous |
Preceded by | Bashar Jaafari |
15th Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations | |
In office 22 November 2020 – 17 October 2023 | |
President | Bashar al-Assad |
Preceded by | Bashar Jaafari |
Succeeded by | Qusay al-Dahhak [1] |
Permanent Representative of Syria to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons | |
In office 31 October 2013 – 22 November 2020 | |
President | Bashar al-Assad |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Milad Attiya [2] |
Ambassador to Austria | |
In office 2010 – 22 November 2020 | |
President | Bashar al-Assad |
Succeeded by | Hassan Khaddour |
Member of the Central Committee of the Ba'ath Party | |
Assumed office 4 May 2024 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Aleppo, Syria | January 1, 1969
Political party | Ba'ath Party |
Alma mater |
Aleppo University Damascus Higher Institute for Political Science |
Profession | Diplomat |
Bassam al-Sabbagh ( Arabic: بسام الصباغ) (born January 1, 1969) is a Syrian diplomat, former Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York City, as well as 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. [3]
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. [4]
He addressed the General debate of the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2023.