H.E. AMBASSADOR HAMID AL BAYATI
PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF IRAQ TO THE UNITED NATIONS
Dr. T. Hamid Al-Bayati was appointed Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations in April 2006. He worked as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Political Affairs and Bilateral Relations from 2004 to 2006. During the same period, he headed the Iraqi Center for Strategic Studies in Iraq.
Upon his arrival in New York in 2006, Dr. Al-Bayati made significant progress as Iraq’s Permanent Representative and was elected as Chair of the United Nations’ Third Committee related to Social, Economic, and Human Rights during its Sixty First Session. This was the second time Iraq presided over a Committee since the establishment of the United Nations. Iraq also made it to the membership of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) with 181 of 192 votes. Furthermore, Ambassador Al-Bayati is one of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly for its Sixty Second Session.
Dr. Al-Bayati spent a great deal of time giving many political lectures about Iraq in political meetings, Summits, Studies Centers, Universities, and Institutes in Washington DC, New York, Philadelphia, Michigan, Oregon, Florida, California, South Dakota, etc.
He also visited a large number of countries and convened with Presidents, Kings, and leaders of those countries such as President George W. Bush, Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Chirac of France, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Juan Carlos of Spain, former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany, the Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, King Abdullah II of Jordan, late President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan, President Bashar Al Asad of Syria, President Bouteflika of Algeria, President Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, President Omar Al- Bashir of Sudan, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, President Susilo Bambang of Indonesia, etc.
Dr. Al-Bayati also participated in Iraq’s opposition conference held in Beirut in 1991 and the Salah Al Din Conference in 1992. He became a member of the Executive Council of the Iraqi National Congress (INC). Furthermore, Ambassador Al-Bayati was also part of the six-member delegation for the Iraqi opposition which was invited to Washington in August 2002 to meet with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and the rest of the officials of the U.S. Administration.
Ambassador Al-Bayati was elected to become a member of the six-member Preparatory Committee conference held in London in December 2002. He was a member of a follow-up and coordination Committee that emanated from the London conference which held a meeting in the city of Salah Al Din, Iraq in February 2003. Dr. Al-Bayati was also a member of the supervising committee that overlooked the work of INDICT, an organization that gathered documents and evidence of crimes committed by Saddam against the people of Iraq which requested for an International Tribunal to judge Saddam and his cronies.
Dr. Al-Bayati was put to jail and was tortured at the General Security Directorate and at the Military Intelligence Department. He was coerced to flee Iraq when Saddam’s regime tried to re-arrest and execute him. Saddam Hussein ordered the killing of 5 people from Dr. Al-Bayati’s family and gangs of the former regime kidnapped and assassinated his brother in 2005.
H.E. Dr. Hamid Al-Bayati obtained a Bachelors degree in Baghdad University, a Masters degree in Cairo University, and a PhD in Politics from Manchester University, England. He wrote and published many books and research papers in Arabic and English including: The Secret of February 8, 1963 Coup, The Shiite of Iraq, The Bloody History of Saddam Hussein Al Takriti, The Secret of July 17, 1968 Coup, The Terrorism Game, Fall of the Evil, Terrorism in Iraq, The Iraqi Constitution, and The Federalism.