List of Australian Ambassadors to Iraq

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Ambassador of Australia to Iraq
Coat of Arms of Australia.svg
Incumbent
Christopher Langman
since August 2015
Style His Excellency
Nominator Prime Minister of Australia
Appointer Governor General of Australia
Inaugural holder Pierre Hutton (resident in Beirut)
Formation 1974
Website Australian Embassy, Iraq

The Ambassador of Australia to Iraq is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the Embassy of the Commonwealth of Australia to the Republic of Iraq in Baghdad.[1] The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and is currently held by Christopher Langman since August 2015. Iraq and Australia have enjoyed official diplomatic relations since the Australian government of Gough Whitlam recognised the Iraqi Republic in 1973. Contacts between Australia and Iraq however were much earlier, dating back to British Mandatory Iraq and the British Protectorate Kingdom of Iraq from 1935.[2]

On 2 December 1973, Foreign Minister Don Willesee announced that Iraq and Australia would establish diplomatic relations with the Australian Ambassador in Beirut to be accredited to Iraq.[3] A resident Ambassador was not appointed until 1976, with Neil Truscott becoming the first resident Ambassador in early 1977.[4] With the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait starting the First Gulf War in August 1990, relations between the two countries became severely strained and diplomatic relations were severed in January 1991 with the withdrawal of Ambassador Peter Lloyd immediately prior to Operation Desert Storm.[5] Relations remained severed until the overthrow of the regime of Saddam Hussein and the establishment of the Australian Mission in Baghdad on 3 May 2003, immediately following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[6] This was upgraded to an embassy 29 June 2004 following the transfer of sovereign authority to the Iraqi Interim Government.[7]

Office-holders

Ambassadors to Iraq, resident in Beirut

Name Start of term End of term References
Pierre Hutton 1974 1975
Peter Curtis 1975 October 1976

Ambassadors to Iraq, resident in Baghdad

Name Start of term End of term References
J.M. Starey (Chargé d'affaires) October 1976 1977
Neil Truscott 1977 1979 [8]
J M. Starey 1979 1981
A.L. Vincent 1981 1983
Miles Kupa 1983 1986
Rory Steele 1986 1989
Peter Lloyd 1989 January 1991 [5]
Suspension of relations
Neil Mules (Head of Mission) 3 May 2003 29 June 2004 [6]
Neil Mules 29 June 2004 October 2004 [9]
Howard Brown October 2004 August 2006 [7]
Marc Innes-Brown August 2006 August 2008 [10]
Robert Tyson August 2008 August 2011 [11]
Lyndall Sachs August 2011 August 2015 [12][13]
Christopher Langman August 2015 present [14][15]

See also

References

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External links

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