Nizar Hamdoon

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Nizar Hamdoon (1944 - July 4, 2003) was Iraq's ambassador to United States from 1984 to 1988 and the United Nations from 1992 to 1998.^[1] He was also the deputy Foreign Minister from 1988 to 1992 and under secretary of the Foreign Ministry from 1999 to his retirement in 2001.^[1]

A Sunni Muslim Arab from Mosul, Hamdoon finished his High School studies in Baghdad College then graduated from Baghdad University with a degree in architecture.^[1]

He gained attention in the West in 1998 during the Iraq disarmament crisis and the UNSCOM weapons inspections.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Nizar Hamdoon, 59, Former Iraqi Diplomat Under Hussein
↑ Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon Iraq's Ambassador to the United Nations
↑ U.S.: Iraqi offer is unacceptable - CNN

External links

Appearances on C-SPAN
Nizar Hamdoon collected news and commentary at The New York Times
Works by or about Nizar Hamdoon in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Persondata
Name	Hamdoon, Nizar
Alternative names
Short description	Iraqi politician
Date of birth	May 18, 1944
Place of birth	Baghdad, Iraq
Date of death	July 4, 1944
Place of death	New York ( Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center )

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