Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Bassam al-Sabbagh | |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Office: | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Term Start: | 17 October 2023 |
President: | Bashar al-Assad |
Primeminister: | Hussein Arnous |
Predecessor: | Bashar Jaafari |
Order1: | 15th |
Office1: | Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations |
President1: | Bashar al-Assad |
Term Start1: | 22 November 2020 |
Term End1: | 17 October 2023 |
Predecessor1: | Bashar Jaafari |
Successor1: | Qusay al-Dahhak[1] |
Office2: | Permanent Representative of Syria to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons |
Term Start2: | 31 October 2013 |
Term End2: | 22 November 2020 |
President2: | Bashar al-Assad |
Predecessor2: | Office established |
Successor2: | Milad Attiya[2] |
Office3: | Ambassador to Austria |
Term Start3: | 2010 |
Term End3: | 22 November 2020 |
President3: | Bashar al-Assad |
Successor3: | Hassan Khaddour |
Office4: | Member of the Central Committee of the Ba'ath Party |
Term Start4: | 4 May 2024 |
Birth Date: | 1 January 1969 |
Birth Place: | Aleppo, Syria |
Party: | Ba'ath Party |
Alma Mater: | Aleppo University Damascus Higher Institute for Political Science |
Profession: | Diplomat |
Bassam al-Sabbagh (Arabic: بسام الصباغ) (born January 1, 1969) is a Syrian diplomat, former Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York City, as well as former Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations Office at Vienna the United Nations Office at Vienna, its former permanent representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and its former permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency.[3]
He was born on 1 January 1969 in Aleppo, Syria. In 1993, graduated from the University of Aleppo as a specialist in international relations, and has a bachelor's degree in political science from the Higher Institute of Political Science in Damascus.[4]
He addressed the General debate of the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2023.