Nizar Hamdoon

Nizar Hamdoon trained in architecture at the University of Baghdad before entering party and government work. He served in the Baath Party’s National Command apparatus and became undersecretary at the Ministry of Culture and Information in 1981. In November 1983, he moved to the Foreign Ministry and took charge of Iraq’s interests section in Washington. ¹

The restoration of relations in November 1984 elevated the interests section to an embassy. Hamdoon subsequently presented ambassadorial credentials in March 1985. He later represented Iraq at the United Nations; in 1996, he also chaired the Arab group when it requested Security Council consideration of Israeli settlement activity. ^{2, 3, 4}