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Bashar Jaafari

بشار الجعفري

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Bashar Jaafari: Syria's Voice at the UN Through 17 Years of War

Jaafari's career illustrates how skilled diplomacy can serve as a tool of atrocity — buying time, creating fog, and using the legitimizing forum of the UN against its own purposes. His dual role as UN ambassador and Geneva peace talks chief negotiator gave the regime complete control over both the denial strategy and the negotiating obstruction strategy.

Biography

Bashar Jaafari served as Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2002 to 2019. He was Syria's diplomatic voice at the Security Council through the entirety of the civil war, using the podium to deny chemical weapons attacks, condemn UN investigations, and defend the Assad regime's every action. He used procedural maneuvers and rhetorical skill to delay, obstruct, and deflect international accountability. Sanctioned by the EU and US. He also served as Syria's chief negotiator at the Geneva peace talks.

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Key Facts

Born:1956-06-09

Place:Safita, Tartus, Syria

Nationality:Syrian