NEWS FROM THE ARAB EMBASSIES
Welcome, Mr. Ambassador Ambassador Mouayed Saleh has been the new appointed of the Republic of Iraq since March 2021. His Excellency began his a long professional experience in the United States in the field of Electronics Engineering in 1989 and moved to the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq, Baghdad, in 2007, as Director General of Foreign Relations and Political Affairs. He then proceeded as the Ambassador at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq, Baghdad (2009 – 2010) and from 2010 to 2015 he served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Iraq to Australia (Resident in Canberra), while serving as Non-Resident Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Iraq to New Zealand (2011 – 2015) and as Non-Resident Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Iraq to the Republic of Fiji (2015). His career took a turn in 2016 when he moved as Permanent Representative of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations Office& other International Organizations at Geneva, where he remained until 2019 and during which period he undertook the posts of Vice-President of the Human Rights Council (2017), President of the Arab Permanent Representatives Group (Jan.-Jun. 2017), Ambassador Permanent Representative of the Republic of Iraq to the Conference on Disarmament, Vice-President of the 10th Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol V on Explosives Remnants of War –CCW (2016) and Vice-President of the Eight Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) (2016). Prior to arriving to Athens, Ambassador Mouayed was appointed Deputy Minister for Administrative &Financial Affairs at the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2021. H.E. Ambassador Mouayed Saleh has attended and participated, throughout his impressive career various high-level meetings and conferences and he is fluent in English and Arabic. The Arab – Hellenic Chamber, while welcoming Ambassador Mouayed, would like to assure His Excellency of its unflinching dedication to promoting Greek – Iraqi relations in all business domains and wish him a pleasant and fruitful stay in Athens.
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