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On Sunday, the president of the Syrian regime, Bashar Al-Assad, issued 3 legislative decrees to appoint Faisal Al-Miqdad as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates and Bashar Al-Jaafari as his deputy, and to transfer Ambassador Bassam Al-Sabbagh to the permanent delegation in New York and approve it as permanent representative.
The regime’s presidency published a statement on “Facebook” in which it said that Assad appointed Al-Miqdad, who was deputy foreign minister, to succeed the late minister Walid Al-Muallem. Bashar al-Jaafari, the permanent representative to the United Nations, was summoned to serve as deputy minister and was replaced by Ambassador Bassam al-Sabbagh in New York.
Al-Miqdad was named to succeed the teacher who died early Monday morning at age 79 and was serving as deputy prime minister and minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates.
Al-Miqdad has served in the diplomatic corps of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1994. In 1995 he was appointed a member of Syria’s permanent delegation to the United Nations, before becoming Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations in 2003.
As for Bashar al-Jaafari, he began his work experience at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1980. He was the third secretary of the Syrian embassy in Paris between 1983-1988.
He served again at the Syrian Embassy in France at the level of Minister Counselor in the periods 1997-1998 and 1998-2002, and al-Jaafari had been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and Charge d’Affaires of the Syrian Embassy in Indonesia.
In 2002, he was appointed Director of the Department of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Damascus, where he held the position until 2004. He was then sworn in as Extraordinary Representative, Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations Office in Geneva.
In 2006, al-Jaafari assumed the position of Ambassador Extraordinary, Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations in New York.
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