Permanent Representative of Iraq 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

• Foreign relations of Iraq
• List of current permanent representatives to the United Nations