List of Syrian ambassadors in France

Syrian Embassy at 20, rue Vaneau Paris

This list represents all Syrian ambassadors in France from 1945 to the present day .

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Appointed / Accredited	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited at
March 3, 1945	Adnan Atassi		Shukri al-Quwatli	Charles de Gaulle
June 17, 1947	Chalid al-Azm		Shukri al-Quwatli	Vincent Auriol
March 22, 1949	Adnan Atassi		Husni az-Za'im	Vincent Auriol
Apr 29, 1955	Assaad Said Mahassen	(* 1909) 1958 to 1961 Ambassador in Rabat, January 4, 1961 to 1962 Ambassador to Rome, 1962 to 1963 Syrian Foreign Minister .	Shukri al-Quwatli	René Coty
July 11, 1964	Sami Jundi		Amin al-Hafez	Charles de Gaulle
Aug 1, 1969	Camel Hussein		Nureddin al-Atassi	Alain Poher
Sep 30 1971	Ahmed Abdul Karim		Hafiz al-Assad	Georges Pompidou
Feb 16, 1978	Youssef Chakour		Hafiz al-Assad	Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Apr 3, 1987	Honein hatem		Hafiz al-Assad	François Mitterrand
Oct 17, 1996	Elias Najmeh	Born April 10, 1942 in Damascus, son of Watfa Serhane and Kamel Najmeh, married Thérèse Fallah on August 2, 1970, sons Nawar and Nibal, studied law . Accredited to the Holy See on April 24, 1997, a week before John Paul II's visit to Damascus .	Hafiz al-Assad	Jacques Chirac
Oct 9, 2002	Siba Nasser	(* March 15, 1945 in Latakia ) 1969 Chargé d'affaires in Vienna, 1988: Head of the Mission de la République arabe syrienne auprès des CE, ambassadeur auprès du royaume de Belgique, des Pays-Bas et du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg.	Bashar al-Assad	Jacques Chirac
Jan. 26, 2009	Lamia Chakkour	(* 1962) Ambassador, daughter of Youssef Chakour	Bashar al-Assad	Nicolas Sarkozy

Since 1997 the ambassador in Paris has also been regularly accredited to the Holy See .