Parliamentary Member Haider Al-Salami stated today, September 4, 2024, the formation of a joint committee to choose 80 Iraqi ambassadors from a list.
“The State leader framed a joint council from the Service of International concerns notwithstanding three individuals from the Unfamiliar Relations Board of trustees in the Place of Delegates to consider the rundown of contender to take on the place of envoy,” Al-Salami said in a press interview.
“The mechanism followed in selecting them includes a violation of the Foreign Service Law, specifically Article 9/Third, which emphasises the appointment of ambassadors from outside the diplomatic corps by no more than 25%; while the current practice is 50% for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and 50% for political forces,” he said. “Article 9/Third emphasises the appointment of ambassadors from outside the diplomatic corps by no more than 25%. “Based on the data, Iraq requires roughly eighty ambassadors spread throughout other nations.”
Emphasising that “the board is proceeding to play out its work in deciding the names as per a particular focuses rule as well as proposing save names for crisis cases, which is a system basically as per discretionary standards,” he said, “the most common way of checking the designated names will take a few time and every one of the names currently proposed are wrong.”
Strategic agents assigned by the Iraqi government, envoys of Iraq are meant to handle national interests in other countries or for global alliances. Ambassadors are appointed by the President of the Republic following nominations from the Minister of Foreign Affairs and council of ministers approval.
The debate over the appointment of Iraqi ambassadors reflects the political tensions and challenges the Iraqi government has faced since 2003, as the process of selecting ambassadors has become connected with a set of complicated factors including political quotas, political party influence, and professional competence.
Calls for a change in the selection of ambassadors throughout time so that they are selected based just on professional qualifications and not on political quotas have grown. Two of the suggested changes are using open, transparent standards for choosing ambassadors and increasing Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ participation in the nomination and appointment procedure.
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Following the fall of the previous system in 2003, the most often used method of referring to representatives in Iraq has been depending on an arrangement of partisan and ethnic proportions, where conciliatory roles are distributed between different political and partisan segments. This has led some ambassadors to be arranged more in line with political or ideological affinities than with capacity and experience.
Expert mastery One of the most notable flaws of the Iraqi ambassadorial selection process is the preference of political allegiance over professional ability. Sometimes those who require conciliatory experience or thorough knowledge on foreign policy are assigned ambassadorial roles, raising questions over their ability to truly confront Iraq.
At last, the debate over the placement of Iraqi officials remains a mind-boggling topic reflecting the inner political conflicts and impacts of the nation on the international scene.
