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Zalmay Khalilzad, First Afghan-Born US Ambassador

achievement

The Senate confirmed Zalmay Khalilzad as US ambassador to the United Nations; born and raised in Kabul, he was the first Afghan-born American to serve as a US ambassador-to Afghanistan in 2003, then Iraq, then the UN-and the first Muslim to represent the US at the UN.

Communities
  • Afghan American
Topics
  • politics
Event type
  • achievement/first
Regions
  • Central Asian

Sources

  • history.state.gov history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/khalilzad-zalmay
  • docs.house.gov docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA00/20240215/116840/HHRG-118-FA00-Bio-KhalilzadZ-20240215.pdf