List of permanent representatives to the United Nations in Geneva

The permanent representative (French représentant permanent RP , English permanent representative PR ) represents his country to the United Nations , in this case to the United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG) . The Permanent Representative hands over his credentials to the Director General of the UNOG, who represents the UN Secretary General in Geneva.

Permanent representatives of member states of the United Nations

As of December 2016, 175 countries are accredited by missions and consequently permanent representatives in Geneva.

For the sake of clarity, the list follows the German designation. The official spelling of the UN in brackets.

Surname	country	Accreditation
	Equatorial Guinea
Amr Ramadan	Egypt	Sep 1 2014
Negash kebret botora	Ethiopia	March 6, 2015
Suraya Dalil	Afghanistan	Nov 2, 2015
Filloreta Kodra	Albania	Dec 6, 2012
Boudjemâa Delmi	Algeria	May 16, 2012
Enri Tarrado Vives	Andorra	Oct 21, 2011
Apolinário Jorge Correia	Angola	16 Sep 2011
Althea A. Vanderpoole Banaahene, chargé d'affaires a. i. *	Antigua and Barbuda	n / a, with residence in London
Hector Marcelo Cima	Argentina	17th May 2016
Charles Aznavour	Armenia	June 26, 2009
Vaqif Sadiqov	Azerbaijan	4th March 2016
John Paton Quinn	Australia	Sep 9 2014
Rhoda M. Jackson	Bahamas	May 24, 2013
Yusuf Abdulkarim Bucheeri	Bahrain	27 Sep 2013
Shameem Ahsan	Bangladesh	19 Sep 2014
Bentley DeVere Gibbs	Barbados	June 30, 2016
Yury Ambrazevich	Belarus (Belarus)	22 Sep 2015
Geert Muylle	Belgium	19th Aug 2016
Lois Michele Young	Belize	19 Sep 2012
Eloi Laourou	Benin	Nov 17, 2016
Kinga Singye	Bhutan	March 3, 2016
Nardi Suxo Ittury	Bolivia	May 13, 2015
Lucija Ljubic-Lepine	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sep 18 2015
Mothusi Bruce Rapahsa Palai	Botswana	Feb. 2, 2011
Maria Nazareth Farani Azevedo	Brazil	Feb 21, 2017
Dato Mahdi Rahman	Brunei	Dec 18, 2014
Deyana Kostadinova	Bulgaria	15 Aug 2016
Seydou Sinka, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Burkina Faso	n / A
Rénovat taboo	Burundi	29 Sep 2016
Marta Murás	Chile	2nd June 2014
Zhaoxu Ma	China	Apr 6, 2016
Elyane Whyte Gomez	Costa Rica	Oct 3, 2014
Zénon Mukongo Ngay	Democratic Republic of Congo	22 Sep 2015
Carsten Staur	Denmark	26 Aug 2013
Antje Leendertse	Germany	Feb 9, 2017
Kadra Ahmed Hassan	Djibouti	Oct 5, 2016
Janet Charles, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Dominica	n / a, with residence in London
Katherine Urbarez, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Dominican Republic	n / A
Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces	Ecuador	Jan. 26, 2015
Joaquin Alexander Maza Martelli	El Salvador	Oct 13, 2014
Kouadio Adjoumani	Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)	Feb 10, 2011
Bereket Woldeyohannes, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Eritrea	n / A
Andre Pung	Estonia	17th Aug 2015
Nazhat Shameem Khan	Fiji	May 23, 2014
Terhi Hakala	Finland	Sep 2 2016
Elisabeth Laurin	France	3rd Sep 2015
Marianne Odette Bibalou Bounda	Gabon	Oct 8, 2015
Adelle Marie Sock, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Gambia	n / a, with residence in Paris
Shalva Tsiskarashvili	Georgia	June 14, 2012
Sammie Eddico	Ghana	15 March 2013
Anna Korka	Greece	May 26, 2016
Georges Cohen	Grenada	Oct 21, 2008
Carla Maria Rodriguez Mancia	Guatemala	March 2, 2016
Aly Diané	Guinea	Nov 12, 2013
Làzaro Ekua Avomo	Guinea-Bissau	June 15, 2016
John Ronald Deep Ford	Guyana	Oct 5, 2016
Pierre André Dunbar	Haiti	Apr 18, 2013
Giampaolo Carmelo Rizzo Alvarado, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Honduras	n / A
Rajiv Kumar Chander	India	28 Apr 2017
Hasan Kleib	Indonesia	26 Apr 2017
Mohsen Narizi Asl	Iran (Islamic Republic)	22. May 2013
Mouayed Saleh	Iraq	Feb. 4, 2016
Patricia O'Brien	Ireland	19 Sep 2013
Högni S. Kristjánson	Iceland	17th Aug 2016
Aviva Raz Schechter	Israel	22 Aug 2016
Maurizio Enrico Luigi Serra	Italy	3rd Sep 2013
Ayne McCook	Jamaica	Jan. 13, 2011
Junichi Ihara	Japan	Jan. 12, 2016
Ali Mohamed Saeed Majawar	Yemen	Dec 6, 2012
Saja Majali	Jordan	Nov 14, 2014
Samol Ney	Cambodia	Jan. 24, 2014
Anatole Fabien Nkou	Cameroon	May 20, 2008
Rosemary McCarney	Canada	Sep 15 2015
José Luis Monteiro	Cape Verde	17 Aug 2010
Zhanar Aitzhanova	Kazakhstan	June 9, 2016
Ali Khalfan Al-Mansouri	Qatar	Jan. 13, 2017
Stephen Ndungu Karau	Kenya	Feb 12, 2015
	Kiribati
Daniiar Mukashev	Kyrgyzstan	Apr 25, 2016
Beatriz Londoño Soto	Colombia	May 13, 2015
Sultan Chouzour	Comoros	Sep 30 2010
Luc-Joseph Okio	Republic of the Congo	Jan. 19, 2009
Vesna Batistic Kos	Croatia	17th Aug 2015
	Cuba
Jamal MI Alghunaim	Kuwait	Oct 9, 2013
Khan-Inh Khitchadeth	Laos	Feb 9, 2017
Janis Karklins	Latvia	16 Sep 2015
Najla Riachi Assaker	Lebanon	Aug 2, 2007
Moshe Neo Kao	Lesotho	23 Feb 2017
Paul Wolokollie Tate, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Liberia	n / A
Ahmed OO Elhwat, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Libya	n / A
Peter Matt	Liechtenstein	Sep 9 2014
Andrius Krivas	Lithuania	Aug 8, 2016
Jean-Marc Hoscheit	Luxembourg	4th Sep 2012
Solofo Andrianjatovo Razafitrimo, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Madagascar	n / A
Robert Dufter Salama	Malawi	Apr 11, 2016
Amran Mohamed Zin	Malaysia	23 Aug 2016
Hala Hameed	Maldives	Jan. 12, 2016
Aya Thiam Diallo	Mali	27 Aug 2013
Olaph Terribile	Malta	Feb 9, 2016
Mohamed Auajjar	Morocco	Nov 3, 2014
	Marshall Islands
Salka Mint Bilal Yamar	Mauritania	Aug 5, 2014
Israhyananda Dhalladoo	Mauritius	Jan. 10, 2013
Jorge Lomonaco	Mexico	Dec 20, 2013
	Micronesia
Tudor Ulianovschi	Moldova	March 8, 2016
Carole Lanteri	Monaco	Feb 4, 2013
Vaanchig Purevdorj	Mongolia	Dec 30, 2013
Miloard Scepanovic	Montenegro	Nov 16, 2016
Pedro Afonso Comissario	Mozambique	Nov 6, 2012
Htin Lynn	Myanmar	Sep 7 2016
Sabine Böhlke-Möller	Namibia	Nov 13, 2013
	Nauru
Deepak Dhital	Nepal	Nov 24, 2014
Roderick Van Schreven	Netherlands	Dec 2, 2011
Jilian Dempster	New Zealand	1st May 2017
Hernan Estrada novel	Nicaragua	Aug 3, 2015
	Netherlands
Fatima Sidikou	Niger	21 Sep 2015
Peters Omologbe, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Nigeria	n / A
Tae Song Han	North Korea (People's Democratic Republic)	Feb 13, 2017
Ljupcho Gjorgjinski, chargé d'affaires a. i.	North Macedonia	n / A
Hans Brattskar	Norway	Sep 2 2016
Abdulla Nasser Al Rahbi	Oman	Sep 12 2012
Marciano Octavio Garcia Da Silva	East Timor (Timor Leste)	26 Aug 2013
Thomas Hanjoczi	Austria	Apr 15, 2013
Farukh Akhter Amil	Pakistan	1st May 2017
	Palau
Ramon Alberto Morales Quijano	Panama	Sep 2 2015
	Papua New Guinea
Juan Esteban Aguirre Martinez	Paraguay	21 Sep 2012
Luis Enrique Chavez BAsagoitia	Peru	Feb 11, 2013
Evan P. Garcia	Philippines	March 27, 2017
Piotr Stachanczyk	Poland	Nov 20, 2015
Pedro Nuno Bártolo	Portugal	Sep 30 2013
Kyong-Lim Choi	South Korea	Oct 5, 2015
François Xavier Ngarambé	Rwanda	May 23, 2014
Adrian Cosmin Vierita	Romania	16 Sep 2015
Alexey Borodavkn	Russia	Jan. 30, 2012
	St. Kitts and Nevis
Gilbert R. Chagoury	St. Lucia	Apr. 3, 2003 - with residence in Paris
	St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Beret Salato, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Solomon Islands	n / A
Encyla Tina Chishiba Sinjela	Zambia	May 23, 2012
	Samoa
Marcello Beccari	San Marino	Nov 3, 2014
	Sao Tome and Principe
Abdulaziz Alwasil	Saudi Arabia	Nov 17, 2016
Veronika Bard	Sweden	3rd Sep 2015
Valentin Zellweger	Switzerland	10 Aug 2016
Coly Seck	Senegal	Oct 10, 2016
Vladislav Mladenovic	Serbia	26 Aug 2013
Selby Pillay	Seychelles	Nov 5, 2015
Yvette Stevens	Sierra Leone	Apr 25, 2012
Kok Jwee Foo	Singapore	8 Sep 2014
Fedor Rosocha	Slovakia	Nov 2, 2009
Vojislav Suc	Slovenia	Jan. 17, 2014
Taonga Mushayavanhu	Zimbabwe	Nov 7, 2014
Faduma Abdullahi Mohamud	Somalia	Aug 3, 2015
Ana Maria Menéndez Pérez	Spain	Apr 2, 2012
Ravinatha P. Aryasinha	Sri Lanka	19th July 2012
Mustafa Osman Ismail Elamin	Sudan	May 6, 2016
	Suriname
Nozipho Joyce Mxakato-Diseko	South Africa	June 24, 2016
	South Korea
Kuol Alor Kuol Arop	South Sudan	Sep 1 2016
Njabuliso Busisiwe Gwebu	Swaziland	Apr 28, 2014
Hussam Edin Aala	Syria	3rd Sep 2014
Jamashed Khamidov	Tajikistan	4th June 2014
Modest Jonathan Mero	Tanzania	4th Sep 2013
Second Wannamethee	Thailand	March 24, 2017
Yackoley Kokou Johnson	Togo	Aug 24, 2016
	Tonga
Garvin Pettier, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Trinidad and Tobago	n / A
Malloum Bamanga Abbas	Chad	Apr 28, 2005
Jan Kára	Czech Republic	31 Aug 2015
Walid Doudech	Tunisia	Oct 9, 2014
Ali Naci Koru	Turkey	Nov 21, 2016
Atageldi Haljanov	Turkmenistan	Sep 15 2014
	Tuvalu
Christopher Onyanga Aparr	Uganda	6th June 2013
Yurii Klymenko	Ukraine	Jan. 13, 2014
Zsuzsanna Horvàth	Hungary	Oct 20, 2014
Obaid Salem Saeed Al Zaabi	United Arab Emirates	July 20, 2007
Julian Braithwaite	United Kingdom (and Northern Ireland)	Apr 14, 2015
Pamela Hamamoto	United States	Jun 26, 2014
Ricardo Gonzalez Arenas	Uruguay	Feb. 24, 2015
Ulugbek Lapasov, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Uzbekistan	n / A
	Vanuatu
Jorge Valero	Venezuela	Oct 1, 2013
Chi Dung Duong	Vietnam	Nov 21, 2016
Léopold Ismael Samba	Central African Republic	Jan. 19, 2009
Andreas Ignatiou	Cyprus	Nov 11, 2013

* At chargé d'affaires a. i. was noted n / a (not available) as they do not have to present their references.

Non-members of the United Nations

The following non-members of the United Nations have received a standing invitation to attend the meetings and work of the UN General Assembly under observer status and have a permanent mission in Geneva.

Ibrahim Khraishi *	State of Palestine	Oct 3, 2008
Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic **	Holy See	Apr 21, 2016

* Ambassador and permanent observer

** Apostolic Nuncio and permanent observer

Intergovernmental Entities

The following intergovernmental entities have received permanent invitations to attend meetings and the work of the UN General Assembly under observer status and have a representation in Geneva.

The people in the list below have the rank of ambassadors and are called permanent observers:

Jean-Marie Ehouzou	African Union	May 16, 2012
Sameh Aboulenein	Arab League	Oct 5, 2015
Jean-Marie Ehouzou	African Union	May 16, 2012
Asarima Ahangama Hettiarachchi, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Commonwealth	n / A
n / A	Council of Europe	n / A
Peter Sørensen	European Union	Nov 3, 2014
Adel Essa Almahri	Golf Cooperation Council	Aug 4, 2015
Marwa Joel Kisiri	Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP)	Jan 15, 2012
Antoine Philippe Barbry, chargé d'affaires a. i.	International organization of the Francophonie	n / A
Nassima Baghli	Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC)	Apr 3, 2017
Ricardo M. James, chargé d'affaires a. i.	Organization of Eastern Caribbean States	n / A
Julian Fleet	Organization international de droit du développement	n / A
Denis Broun	Partenaires in the domaine de la population et you dévelopment	March 18, 2014
Iba Mar Oulare	West African Economic and Monetary Union	June 21, 2016
Gerhard JW Putman-Cramer	Assembly of Parliamentarians of the Mediterranean	26 Aug 2013

Other entities

Other entity that has received a permanent invitation to attend and work at the UN General Assembly under observer status and has a permanent office in Geneva:

Marie-Thérèse Pictet-Althann

Sovereign Order of Malta

Nov 24, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ United Nations Office of Geneva: Where global solutions are shaped for you | Permanent Missions | Publication "Missions permanentes auprès des Nations Unies à Genève" (Blue Book). In: unog.ch. Retrieved December 17, 2016 .