Nizar Hamdoon

Nizar Hamdoon (1944 - July 4, 2003) was Iraq's ambassador to United States from 1984 to 1988 and to the United Nations from 1992 to 1998. He was also the deputy Foreign Minister from 1988 to 1992 and undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry from 1999 to his retirement in 2001.[1][2]

Nizar Hamdoon
Hamdoon presented his credentials to President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office in 1985
Born1944-05-18
Iraq
Died2003-07-04
New York City
Alma materBaghdad University

A Muslim Arab from Mosul, Hamdoon finished his high school studies in Baghdad College then graduated from Baghdad University with a degree in architecture.[1][2]

He gained attention in the West in 1998 during the Iraq disarmament crisis and the UNSCOM weapons inspections.[3][4] In a memo he wrote a few months before retiring, he argued that Iraq should be a monarchy and have a constitution written by Iraqis.[5]

Nizar Hamdoon died on 4 July 2003 in New York City from pneumonia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[1][2] He was buried in Bagdad ten days later.[5]

References
  1. Pace, Eric (2003-08-10). "Nizar Hamdoon, 59, Former Iraqi Diplomat Under Hussein". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
  2. Archives, L. A. Times (2003-08-11). "Nizar Hamdoon, 59; Iraqi Ambassador to U.S., Then to U.N." Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
  3. "Iraq's UN Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon". web.archive.org. 2000-08-17. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
  4. "CNN - U.S.: Iraqi offer is unacceptable - November 14, 1998". edition.cnn.com. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
  5. "It's Not Over Until Saddam Is Over". The Washington Post. 27 July 2003. Retrieved 2 May 2023.


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