Qusay al-Dahhak
Qusay al-Dahhak | |
|---|---|
قصي الضحاك | |
| 16th Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations | |
| Assumed office 20 December 2023 | |
| President | Bashar al-Assad |
| Preceded by | Bassam al-Sabbagh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Salamiyah, Hama Governorate, Syria |
| Political party | Ba'ath Party |
| Alma mater | University of Algiers (LLM) |
| Profession | Politician, Diplomat |
Qusay Abdul Jabbar al-Dahhak (Arabic: قصي عبد الجبار الضحاك) is a Syrian politician and diplomat who has held the position of Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since December 2023.[1]
Career
[edit]He has held several administrative and governmental positions since the beginning of his career in 2001, where he worked as third secretary at the Syrian Embassy in the People's Republic of China from 2004 to 2009 and a diplomat in the Permanent Delegation of Syria to the United Nations in New York from 2012 to 2016.
He was an advisor and director of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences at the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2018.[2][3] Then he was an advisor to the Permanent Delegation from 2018 to 2022, where he was Deputy Head of the Syrian Permanent Delegation to the United Nations. Between 2022 and 2023, he was again a director of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences at the ministry. In 2023, he was promoted to the position of Permanent Representative succeeding Bassam al-Sabbagh.[4]
Personal life
[edit]He is the son of Syrian biology professor and career diplomat Abdul Jabbar al Dahhak who served as the Minister of Oil and Ambassador of Syria to Algeria. Abdul Jabbar later worked as a professor in the Biology Faculty of the University of Damascus before passing away in 2020.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "New Permanent Representative of Syrian Arab Republic Presents Credentials | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". press.un.org. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ^ m.eyon (2024-02-15). "Syria's permanent representative to UN is elected as rapporteur of Special Committee on Decolonization". Syrian Arab News Agency. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ^ "Al-Sunni meets Syrian representative to the United Nations | The Libya Observer". libyaobserver.ly. 2024-03-27. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ^ "New Permanent Representative of Syrian Arab Republic Presents Credentials". United Nations. 31 January 2024. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
- ^ بركات, جمان (2020-12-08). "عبد الجبار الضحاك.. قامة علمية وثقافية رحلت بهدوء". جريدة البعث (in Arabic). Retrieved 2024-04-14.