List of ambassadors of Iraq to China

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Ambassador of Iraq to the People's Republic of China
Incumbent
Shorsh Khalid Said
since April 14, 2021
Inaugural holder Abd al-haq Fadil
Formation1960

The Iraqi ambassador in Beijing is the official representative of the Government in Baghdad to the Government of China.

List of representatives

Diplomatic agrément/Diplomatic accreditation ambassador Observations Prime Minister of Iraq Premier of the People's Republic of China Term end
August 25, 1958establishing diplomatic relations [1] Abd al-Karim Qasim Zhou Enlai
1960 Abd al-haq Fadil Abd al-Karim Qasim Zhou Enlai 1963
1963 Abdul Muttalib Hameen Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr Zhou Enlai 1966
1966 Munir Rashid Naji Talib Zhou Enlai 1967
1970 Monther Abdul Hamid Eraim Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr Zhou Enlai 1972
1972 Mawlud Kamil Abid Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr Zhou Enlai 1973
May 27, 1973 Falih A. Razzak Al-Sammarraie Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr Zhou Enlai 1976
1977 Issa Salman Hamid Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr Hua Guofeng 1979
1980 Badri Karim Khadhim Saddam Hussein Zhao Ziyang 1983
October 1983 Rashid al-Rifai Saddam Hussein Zhao Ziyang July 1985
1986 Muhammad Amin al-Jaff
  • He joined the Foreign Service in 1979 after 25 years with economic and industrial governmental organizations, and a few months later he was posted as Ambassador to Japan.
  • from March 1980 till January 1986 he was ambassador in Tokyo.
  • After the Invasion of Kuwait the Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Yang Fuchang [2] summoned the Iraqi and Kuwaiti ambassadors, one after the other, to receive China's demand for swift Iraqi withdrawal and resolution of the territorial dispute by negotiations, he told ambassador Mohammed Amin al-Jaff that China regretted the invasion. [3]
Saddam Hussein Zhao Ziyang 1991
March 29, 1994 Bassam Salih Kubba
  • On June 12, 2004 he was Iraq's Deputy Foreign Minister when he was shot in northwest Baghdad. [4]
Saddam Hussein Li Peng 2000
2002 Osama B. Mahmoud Saddam Hussein Zhu Rongji 2003
2006 Rahman Louan Mohsen Chargé d'affaires [5] Nouri al-Maliki Wen Jiabao
2007 Mohammad Sabir Ismail [6] Nouri al-Maliki Wen Jiabao 2008
September 3, 2010 Abdul-Karim H. Mostafa Nouri al-Maliki Wen Jiabao August 2016
March 17, 2017Ahmad T. A. Berwari Adil Abdul-Mahdi Li Keqiang August 2020
April 14, 2021 Shorsh Khalid Said Mustafa Al-Kadhimi Li Keqiang

Coordinates: 39°54′43″N116°26′18″E / 39.912046°N 116.438196°E / 39.912046; 116.438196

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