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A career diplomat, he served as Jordan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from until , when he was appointed as Jordan's Ambassador to the United States and non-resident Ambassador to Mexico.

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He was re-appointed Permanent Representative in and served until , resigning shortly before his selection as High Commissioner. Zeid was born in Amman , Jordan. He was educated in England at Reed's School , Surrey , then in the United States at Johns Hopkins University , where he was a member of the university's rugby club and graduated with a B.

Zeid received a commission as an officer in the Jordanian desert police the successor to the Arab Legion in and saw service with it until In January , Zeid became president of the United Nations Security Council and chaired the Security Council's and committees, with regard to two sanctions regimes: the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia.

He also chaired the search committee for the selection of the second prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in During his two-year tenure, he issued a report on eliminating such abuse from all peacekeeping operations, which became known as the 'Zeid Report'. On 6 June , U. The nomination, which was subsequently approved by the nation U.

On 8 September , in his maiden speech to the UN's member Human Rights Council at the body's 27th session in Geneva, Zeid strongly criticized the so-called Islamic State group, saying it was trying to create a "house of blood".

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He called on the international community to combat the spread of the movement in Iraq and Syria , asking, "[Do] they believe they ISIS are acting courageously, barbarically slaughtering captives? He said: "If we have learned anything from our collective history, it is this: Scrambling only for ourselves, our people, our political or religious ideology, or for our own kind will only scramble it all — eventually, sometimes horrifyingly so — for everyone.

The newly appointed Commissioner also focused on other troubled areas of the world, including Venezuela , Ukraine and Gaza. He has reported to the Security Council on Iraq [ 20 ] and other countries, and spoken of the need for greater moral courage to ensure equality and human rights for all: "Children need to learn what bigotry and chauvinism are, and the evil they can produce.