Hoshyar Zebari

Hoshyar Zebari
Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 September 2014
Prime Minister	Haider al-Abadi
Preceded by	Hussain al-Shahristani
Minister of Finance
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 October 2014
Prime Minister	Haider al-Abadi
Preceded by	Rowsch Shaways
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 13 July 2003 – 11 July 2014
Prime Minister	Ayad Allawi Ibrahim al Jaafari Nouri al-Maliki
Preceded by	Naji Sabri
Succeeded by	Hussain al-Shahristani
Personal details
Born	1953 Aqrah, Iraq
Nationality	Iraqi British
Political party	Kurdistan Democratic Party
Alma mater	University of Essex
Religion	Sunni Islam

Hoshyar Zebari (also spelled Hoshyar Zubari/Zibari, Kurdish: Hişyar Zêbarî; born 1953) is the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Iraq. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2003 until 2014. A Kurd originally from Aqrah, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, Zebari holds a master's degree in sociology from the University of Essex, England and studied political science in Jordan. He was the foreign spokesperson for the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the 1990s and represented the party to both the United Kingdom and the United States.

He was appointed Foreign Minister of Iraq in 2003 by the Iraqi Governing Council and held the post for the Iraqi Interim Government, Iraqi Transitional Government and the first permanent government.

In July 2012, Zebari said that al-Qaeda in Iraq members went to Syria, where the militants previously received support and weapons.^[1]

On 11 July 2014, Zebari was replaced as foreign minister by Hussain al-Shahristani, Iraq's deputy prime minister, who assumed the position in an acting capacity, after Kurdish politicians withdrew from the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.^[2]

References

1. Karam, Zeina (07/6/2012). "Iraq: Al-Qaeda migrates to Syria". Associated Press. Check date values in: |access-date=, |date= (help);
2. "Tensions mount between Baghdad and Kurdish region as Kurds seize oil fields". Washington Post. Retrieved 11 July 2014.

• "Iraq's post-war cabinet". BBC News. September 1, 2003. Retrieved 2006-02-24.
• "Interim Iraqi government". BBC News. June 1, 2004. Retrieved 2006-02-24.
• "New Iraqi government members". BBC News. May 8, 2005. Retrieved 2006-02-24.

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Works by or about Hoshyar Zebari in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Hoshyar Zebari collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• Richard Haass meets Hoshyar Zebari, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), June 8, 2004
• Iraq's Foreign Minister Confirms Support for New US Strategy, VOA, January 14, 2007