Hoshyar Zebari
Foreign Minister
Incumbent
Assumed office  May 20, 2006
President	Jalal Talabani
Prime Minister	Nouri al-Maliki
Foreign Minister
In office May 3, 2005 – May 20, 2006
President	Jalal Talabani
Prime Minister	Ibrahim al Jaafari
Foreign Minister
In office June 28, 2004 – May 3, 2005
President	Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer
Prime Minister	Iyad Allawi
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office July 13, 2003 – June 1, 2004
Governor	L. Paul Bremer
Born	1953 Aqrah, Iraq
Nationality	Iraqi
Political party	Kurdistan Democratic Party
Religion	Islam

Hoshyar Zebari (also spelled Hoshyar Zubari/Zibari, Kurdish: Hişyar Zêbarî) (born 1953) is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq. A Kurd originally from Aqrah, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, Zebari holds a masters 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.

On October 28, 2007, he warned of serious consequences should Turkey launch a large-scale attack against Kurdish PKK rebels in Iraqi Kurdistan.^[1] Turkey chose to proceed with an assault.

References

1. ^ BBC News (2007-10-28). "Iraq warns Turkey over incursion". Retrieved on 2007-10-28.

• BBC News (2003-09-01). "Iraq's post-war cabinet". Retrieved on 2006-02-24.
• BBC News (2004-06-01). "Interim Iraqi government". Retrieved on 2006-02-24.
• BBC News (2005-05-08). "New Iraqi government members". Retrieved on 2006-02-24.

External links

• Richard Haass meets Hoshyar Zebari, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), June 8, 2004.
• Iraq's Foreign Minister Confirms Support for New US Strategy

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