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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq
وزارة الخارجية العراقية
Incumbent Fuad Hussein since 6 June 2020
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Member of	Cabinet
Reports to	President of the Republic 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/

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq is a cabinet ministry of Iraq, responsible for 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:

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

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Americas	Brazil Cuba Mexico United States
Asia	Armenia Bahrain Bangladesh China Georgia India Indonesia Iran Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon North Korea Pakistan Palestine Philippines Saudi Arabia Sri Lanka Syria Turkey United Arab Emirates Vietnam Yemen
Europe	Belarus Bulgaria Czech Republic Denmark European Union France Germany Greece Hungary Italy Kosovo Poland Romania Russia Serbia Spain Sweden Ukraine United Kingdom
Former	Yugoslavia
Multilateral relations	United Nations
Diplomatic missions	Diplomatic missions of Iraq / in Iraq
See also	Foreign aid to Iraq

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