Sociologist and politician, Hoshyar Mahmoud Mohammed Fares, known as Hoshyar Zebari, in the 9th Congress 1979 was elected as a member of the Central Committee, and in the 10th Congress 1989 and 11th Congress 1993 and 12th Congress 1999 was elected as a member of the Central Committee and later the Political Bureau, and in the 13th Congress 2010 was also elected as a member of the Leadership Council and later the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party He was elected. In 1992, he was a candidate of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the first round of the National Assembly elections. In the cabinets of Dr. Ibrahim al-Jaafari (2005) and Nouri al-Maliki (2006), he became the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq, and later in the cabinet of Adil Abdul-Mahdi, he became the Minister of Finance of Iraq.

Biography

Hoshyar Zebari obtained his bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Jordan in 1976, and in 1979 he obtained his master's degree in sociology and development from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. He is proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, English, and Persian.

Struggle Record         

Hoshyar Mahmoud Mohammed Fares joined the ranks of the Party in 1976 and participated in the Gulan Revolution. In the 9th Congress 1979 he was elected as a member of the Central Committee, and in the 10th Congress 1989 and 11th Congress 1993 and 12th Congress 1999 he was elected as a member of the Central Committee and later the Political Bureau, and in the 13th Congress he was also elected as a member of the Leadership Council and later the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 2022, at the 14th Congress, he was re-elected as a member of the Central Committee and in the first meeting of the Leadership Committee, he was re-elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In 1979, he became the head of the 6th Branch Committee of Europe. In the courses of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Institute, he taught subjects on the right to self-determination, political terminology, political economy, political culture, and the Kurd and international relations. In 1988, he was the head of the International Relations Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the same year, he launched a campaign to draw the attention of Western countries to condemn Iraq's use of chemical weapons against Kurds in Southern Kurdistan.

From (1990-2003), he was the head of foreign relations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Europe. In 1992, he participated in the Iraqi National Congress in Vienna, and in the same year, he was a member of the executive body of the Iraqi National Congress (Salahaddin Congress) and became a member of the general body and a member of the executive body of the Iraqi National Congress (Vienna Congress). In 1999, he was elected as a member of the presidency of the Iraqi National Congress (London meeting).

In January 2005, he was elected as a member of the Iraqi National Assembly on the Kurdistan Alliance list, and on April 28, 2005, in the cabinet of Ibrahim al-Jaafari, he became the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq, and on April 22, 2006, in the first cabinet of Nouri al-Maliki, he was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq. In 2014, he became the Minister of Finance of Iraq in the cabinet of Haider al-Abadi.

In 2010, at the 13th Congress of the Party, he was awarded the Medal of the Immortal Barzani by President Masoud Barzani.

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