Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Bassam al-Sabbagh | |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Office: | Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates |
Term Start: | 23 September 2024 |
President: | Bashar al-Assad |
Primeminister: | Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali |
Predecessor: | Faisal Mekdad |
Office1: | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Term Start1: | 17 October 2023 |
Term End1: | 23 September 2024 |
President1: | Bashar al-Assad |
Primeminister1: | Hussein Arnous |
Predecessor1: | Bashar Jaafari |
Successor1: | Ayman Raad |
Order2: | 15th |
Office2: | Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations |
President2: | Bashar al-Assad |
Term Start2: | 22 November 2020 |
Term End2: | 17 October 2023 |
Predecessor2: | Bashar Jaafari |
Successor2: | Qusay al-Dahhak[1] |
Office3: | Permanent Representative of Syria to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons |
Term Start3: | 31 October 2013 |
Term End3: | 22 November 2020 |
President3: | Bashar al-Assad |
Predecessor3: | Office established |
Successor3: | Milad Attiya[2] |
Office4: | Ambassador to Austria |
Term Start4: | 2010 |
Term End4: | 22 November 2020 |
President4: | Bashar al-Assad |
Successor4: | Hassan Khaddour |
Office5: | Member of the Central Committee of the Ba'ath Party |
Term Start5: | 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 (ar|بسام الصباغ; born 1 January 1969) is a Syrian diplomat and politician who has been Foreign and Expatriates Minister of Syria since 2024. He also served as Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations in New York City from 2020 to 2023.
Sabbagh is 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 also served as Syrian Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2020 to 2023. He addressed the General debate of the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2023. He was appointed as Foreign and Expatriates Minister on 23 September 2024.[5]