Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Iraq)

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq
وزارة الخارجية العراقية
IncumbentFuad Hussein since 6 June 2020
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Member of	Cabinet
Reports to	Prime Minister
Seat	Green Zone
Nominator	Prime Minister
Appointer	Council of Representatives
Term length	Four-year term, renewable
Formation	1924
Website	https://mofa.gov.iq/

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq is a central government ministry of Iraq, responsible for formulating foreign policy and conducting foreign relations of the country.

Organisation

Iraq maintains 86 Diplomatic missions worldwide.

List of ministers

The following is a list of foreign ministers of Iraq since 1924:^[1]

Kingdom of Iraq (1921–1958)

• 1924–1930: the prime ministers
• 1930–1931: Abdullah Bey al-Damluji
• 1931–1932: Ja'far al-Askari
• 1932–1933: Abdul Qadir Rashid
• 1933–1934: Nuri al-Said
• 1934: Abdullah Bey al-Damluji
• 1934: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
• 1934–1936: Nuri al-Said
• 1936–1937: Naji al-Asil
• 1937–1938: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
• 1938–1939: Nuri al-Said
• 1939–1940: Ali Jawdat Al-Ayyubi
• 1940–1941: Nuri al-Said
• 1941: Ali Mahmud al-Shaykh
• 1941: Taha al-Hashimi
• 1941: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
• 1941: Musa al-Shabandar
• 1941: Ali Jawdat Al-Ayyubi
• 1941–1942: Sayyid Salih Jabr(acting)
• 1942: Abdullah Bey al-Damluji (acting)
• 1942: Dawood Al-Haidari(acting)
• 1942: Nuri al-Said(acting)
• 1942–1943: Abdul Ilah al-Hafiz
• 1943: Nasrat al-Farisi
• 1943: Abdul Ilah al-Hafiz
• 1943–1944: Mahmud Subhi al-Daftari
• 1944–1945: Arshad al-Umari
• 1945–1946: Hamdi al-Pachachi
• 1946: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
• 1946: Ali Mumtaz
• 1946–1948: Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali
• 1948: Hamdi al-Pachachi
• 1948: Nasrat al-Farisi
• 1948: Muzahim al-Bajaji
• 1948–1949: Ali Jawdat Al-Ayyubi
• 1949: Abdul Ilah al-Hafiz
• 1949: Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali
• 1949: Shakir al-Wadi
• 1949–1950: Muzahim al-Bajaji
• 1950: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
• 1950–1951: Shakir al-Wadi
• 1951: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
• 1951–1952: Shakir al-Wadi
• 1952: Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali
• 1953: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
• 1953–1954: Abdullah Bakr
• 1954: Musa al-Shabandar
• 1954: Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali
• 1954–1955: Musa al-Shabander
• 1955–1957: Burhanuddin Bashayan
• 1957: Ali Jawdat Al-Ayyubi
• 1957–1958: Burhanuddin Bashayan
• 1958: Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali
• 1958: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi

Iraqi Republic (1958–1968)

• 1958–1959: Abdul Jabbar Jomard
• 1959–1963: Hashem Jawad
• 1963: Talib Shabib
• 1963: Salih Mahdi Ammash
• 1963–1964: Subhi Abdul Hamid
• 1964–1965: Naji Talib
• 1965: Abdul Rahman al-Bazzaz
• 1965–1967: Adnan Pachachi
• 1967–1968: Ismail Khairallah(acting)

Ba'athist Iraq (1968–2003)

• 1968: Nasser al-Hani
• 1968–1971: Abdul Karim al-Shaikhly
• 1971: Rashid al-Rifai
• 1971–1974: Murtada Said Abdel Baki al-Hadithi
• 1974: Shathel Taqa
• 1974: Hisham al-Shawi(acting)
• 1974–1983: Sa'dun Hammadi
• 1983–1991: Tariq Aziz
• 1991–1992: Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai
• 1992–2001: Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
• 2001: Tariq Aziz(acting)
• 2001–2003: Naji Sabri

Republic of Iraq (2004–present)

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Political party	Prime Minister
	Hoshyar Zebari		1 September 2003	11 July 2014	Kurdistan Democratic Party		Coalition Provisional Authority, Ayad Allawi, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, and Nouri al-Maliki
	Hussain al-Shahristani(interim)		11 July 2014	8 September 2014	State of Law Coalition		Nouri al-Maliki
	Ibrahim al-Jaafari		8 September 2014	25 October 2018	State of Law Coalition		Haider al-Abadi
	Mohamed Ali Alhakim		25 October 2018	12 May 2020	Independent		Adil Abdul-Mahdi
	Mustafa Al-Kadhimi(interim)		12 May 2020	6 June 2020	Independent		Mustafa Al-Kadhimi Mohammed Shia al Sudani
	Fuad Hussein		6 June 2020	Incumbent	Kurdistan Democratic Party

References

1. "Foreign ministers E-K". rulers.org. B. Schemmel. Retrieved 21 April 2017.

External links

• Iraq Ministry of Foreign Affairs official website