List of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations
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The below is a list of the current
Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in New York, together with their country, and when their position was last confirmed. Permanent Representatives are also appointed to the United Nations in Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi; and Permanent Delegates to UNESCO.
| Name
| Country
| Date of presentation of credentials
|
| Zahir Tanin
| Afghanistan
| December 19, 2006 |
| Adrian Neritani
| Albania
| April 27, 2006 |
| Youcef Yousfi
| Algeria
| January 19, 2006 |
| Carles Font-Rossell
| Andorra
| September 11, 2007 |
| Ismael Abraão Gaspar Martins
| Angola
| May 23, 2001 |
| Kyle Christian
| Antigua and Barbuda
| May 3, 2004 |
| Jorge Argüello
| Argentina
| June 18, 2007 |
| Armen Martirosian
| Armenia
| June 12, 2003 |
| Robert Hill
| Australia
| May 1, 2006 |
| Gerhard Pfanzelter
| Austria
| September 7, 1999 |
| Agshin Mehdiyev
| Azerbaijan
| November 30, 2006 |
| Paulette Bethel
| Bahamas
| March 4, 2003 |
| Tawfeeq Ahmed Almansoor
| Bahrain
| January 21, 2003 |
| Ismat Jahan
| Bangladesh
| June 18, 2007 |
| Christopher Fitzherbert Hackett
| Barbados
| March 12, 2004 |
| Andrei Dapkiunas
| Belarus
| September 17, 2004 |
| Johan C. Verbeke
| Belgium
| September 16, 2004 |
| Janine Elizabeth Coye-Felson
| Belize
| Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Jean-Marie Ehouzou
| Benin
| September 29, 2006 |
| Daw Penjo
| Bhutan
| November 26, 2003 |
| Hugo Siles Alvarado
| Bolivia
| July 13, 2007 |
| Miloš Prica
| Bosnia and Herzegovina
| October 18, 2005 |
| Samuel O. Outlule
| Botswana
| October 18, 2005 |
| Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti
| Brazil
| July 25, 2007 |
| Emran Bahar
| Brunei Darussalam
| April 27, 2006 |
| Rayko Strahilov Raytchev
| Bulgaria
| September 11, 2007 |
| Michel Kafando
| Burkina Faso
| April 15, 1998 |
| Joseph Ntakirutimana
| Burundi
| May 1, 2006 |
| Kosal Sea
| Cambodia
| April 7, 2007 |
| Martin Belinga Eboutou
| Cameroon
| March 13, 1998 |
| John McNee
| Canada
| July 1, 2006 |
| Antonio Pedro Monteiro Lima
| Cape Verde
| August 23, 2007 |
| Fernand Poukré-Kono
| Central African Republic
| January 15, 2003 |
| Mahamat Ali Adoum
| Chad
| February 15, 2005 |
| Heraldo Muñoz
| Chile
| June 18, 2003 |
| Wang Guangya
| People's Republic of China
| August 7, 2003 |
| Claudia Blum
| Colombia
| September 11, 2006 |
| Mohamed Toihiri
| Comoros
| October 1 2007 |
| Pascal Gayama
| Congo
| Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Jorge Urbina
| Costa Rica
| October 17, 2006 |
| Ilahiri A. Djédjé
| Côte d’Ivoire
| January 11, 2006 |
| Mirjana Mladineo
| Croatia
| July 14, 2005 |
| Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz
| Cuba
| December 21, 2005 |
| Andreas D. Mavroyiannis
| Cyprus
| August 7, 2003 |
| Martin Palouš
| Czech Republic
| September 11, 2006 |
| Pak Gil Yon
| DPR of Korea
| December 5, 2001 |
| Atoki Ileka
| Dem. Rep. of the Congo
| May 23, 2001 |
| Carsten Staur
| Denmark
| March 16, 2007 |
| Roble Olhaye
| Djibouti
| January 18, 1988 |
| Crispin S. Gregoire
| Dominica
| October 1, 2002 |
| Enriquillo A. del Rosario Ceballos
| Dominican Republic
| Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Diego Cordovez
| Ecuador
| October 18, 2005 |
| Maged A. Abdelaziz
| Egypt
| January 26, 2005 |
| Carmen María Gallardo Hernández
| El Salvador
| September 17, 2004 |
| Lino Sima Ekua Avomo
| Equatorial Guinea
| May 21, 2003 |
| Araya Desta
| Eritrea
| December 14, 2005 |
| Tiina Intelmann
| Estonia
| March 30, 2005 |
| Dawit Yohannes
| Ethiopia
| May 30, 2006 |
| Mason F. Smith
| Fiji
| Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Kirsti Lintonen
| Finland
| February 15, 2005 |
| Jean-Maurice Ripert
| France
| 16 August, 2007 |
| Denis Dangue Réwaka
| Gabon
| October 11, 1988 |
| Tamsir Jallow
| Gambia
| August 16 2007 |
| Irakli Alasania
| Georgia
| September 11, 2006 |
| Thomas Matussek
| Germany
| July 31 2006 |
| Leslie Kojo Christian
| Ghana
| 1 June, 2007 |
| John Mourikis
| Greece
| June 18, 2007 |
| Angus Friday
| Grenada
| February 7, 2007 |
| Jorge Skinner-Klée
| Guatemala
| October 6, 2004 |
| Alpha Ibrahima Sow
| Guinea
| August 7, 2003 |
| Alfredo Lopes Cabral
| Guinea Bissau
| August 7, 2003 |
| Samuel R. Insanally
| Guyana
| February 18, 1987 |
| Léo Mérorès
| Haiti
| March 30, 2005 |
| Iván Romero-Martínez
| Honduras
| April 27, 2006 |
| Gábor Bródi
| Hungary
| May 13, 2005 |
| Hjálmar W. Hannesson
| Iceland
| September 18, 2003 |
| Vijay Nambiar
| India
| September 16, 2004 |
| R.M. [[Marty Natalegawa]]
| Indonesia
| September 11, 2007 |
| Mohammad Khazaee
| Islamic Republic of Iran
| July 25, 2007 |
| Hamid Al Bayati
| Iraq
| April 27, 2006 |
| John Paul Kavanagh
| Ireland
| July 25, 2007 |
| Dan Gillerman
| Israel
| January 15, 2003 |
| Marcello Spatafora
| Italy
| April 4, 2003 |
| Raymond O. Wolfe
| Jamaica
| June 13, 2006 |
| Yukio Takasu
| Japan
| August 28, 2007 |
| Mohammed F. Al-Allaf
| Jordan
| July 25, 2007 |
| Byrganym Aitimova
| Kazakhstan
| March 16, 2007 |
| Zachary D. Muburi-Muita
| Kenya
| September 11, 2006 |
| Abdullah Al-Murad
| Kuwait
| July 31, 2006 |
| Nurbek Jeenbaev
| Kyrgyzstan
| September 16, 2004 |
| Kanika Phommachanh
| Lao People's Dem. Rep.
| June 1, 2007 |
| Solveiga Silkalna
| Latvia
| June 8, 2005 |
| Nawaf Salam
| Lebanon
| July 13 2007 |
| Lebohang Fine Maema
| Lesotho
| September 8, 2005 |
| Milton Nathaniel Barnes
| Liberia
| September 11, 2006 |
| Giadalla A. Ettalhi
| Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
| April 30 2007 |
| Christian Wenaweser
| Liechtenstein
| October 1, 2002 |
| Dalius Čekuolis
| Lithuania
| March 2, 2006 |
| Jean-Marc Hoscheit
| Luxembourg
| September 2, 2003 |
| Zina Andrianarivelo-Razafy
| Madagascar
| September 9, 2002 |
| Steve Dick Tennyson Matenje
| Malawi
| November 30, 2006 |
| Hamidon Ali
| Malaysia
| August 2, 2005 |
| Mohamed Latheef
| Maldives
| November 11, 2002 |
| Ami Diallo
| Mali
| Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Saviour F. Borg
| Malta
| August 23, 2007 |
| Rina M. Tareo
| Marshall Islands
| Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Abderrahim Ould Hadrami
| Mauritania
| September 11, 2007 |
| Somduth Soborun
| Mauritius
| May 30, 2006 |
| Claude Heller
| Mexico
| 9 April, 2007 |
| Masao Nakayama
| Federated States of Micronesia
| March 13, 1998 |
| Gilles Noghès
| Monaco
| July 23, 2004 |
| Enkhtsetseg Ochir
| Mongolia
| October 1, 2007 |
| Nebojša Kaluđerović
| Montenegro
| August 11, 2006 |
| El Mostafa Sahel
| Morocco
| March 2, 2006 |
| Filipe Chidumo
| Mozambique
| April 4, 2003 |
| Kyaw Tint Swe
| Myanmar
| April 9, 2001 |
| Kaire Munionganda Mbuende
| Namibia
| 11 September, 2006 |
| Marlene Moses
| Nauru
| March 30, 2005 |
| Madhu Raman Acharya
| Nepal
| September 8, 2005 |
| Franciscus Antonius Maria Majoor
| Netherlands
| October 5, 2005 |
| Rosemary Banks
| New Zealand
| June 8, 2005 |
| María Rubiales de Chamorro
| Nicaragua
| July 13, 2007 |
| Aboubacar Ibrahim Abani
| Niger
| September 8, 2005 |
| Felix Ani Aniokoye
| Nigeria
| Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Johan L. Løvald
| Norway
| August 7, 2003 |
| Fuad Al-Hinai
| Oman
| October 9, 1998 |
| Munir Akram
| Pakistan
| May 28, 2002 |
| Stuart Beck
| Palau
| April 13, 2004 |
| Ricardo Alberto Arias
| Panama
| September 17, 2004 |
| Robert Guba Aisi
| Papua New Guinea
| June 25, 2002 |
| Eladio Loizaga
| Paraguay
| July 3, 2001 |
| Jorge Voto-Bernales
| Peru
| October 17, 2006 |
| Hilario G. Davide, Jr.
| Philippines
| March 2, 2007 |
| Andrzej Towpik
| Poland
| December 7, 2004 |
| João Manuel Guerra Salgueiro
| Portugal
| January 26, 2005 |
| Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser
| Qatar
| September 11, 1998 |
| Kim Hyun Chong
| South Korea
| June 8, 2005 |
| Alexey Tulbure
| Republic of Moldova
| September 11, 2006 |
| Mihnea Motoc
| Romania
| May 5, 2003 |
| Vitaly I. Churkin
| Russian Federation
| May 1, 2006 |
| Joseph Nsengimana
| Rwanda
| June 13, 2006 |
| Delano Frank Bart
| Saint Kitts and Nevis
| November 30, 2006 |
| Julian R. Hunte
| Saint Lucia
| December 7, 2004 |
| Margaret Hughes Ferrari
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
| September 12, 2001 |
| Ali'ioaiga Feturi Elisaia
| Samoa
| September 18, 2003 |
| Daniele D. Bodini
| San Marino
| August 9, 2005 |
| Ovidio Manuel Barbosa Pequeno
| Sao Tome and Principe
| April 27, 2006 |
| Fawzi A. Shobokshi
| Saudi Arabia
| May 6, 1999 |
| Paul Badji
| Senegal
| February 17, 2004 |
| Pavle Jevremović
| Serbia
| September 11, 2006 |
| Ronald Jean Jumeau
| Seychelles
| August 23, 2007 |
| Joe Robert Pemagbi
| Sierra Leone
| March 4, 2003 |
| Vanu Gopala Menon
| Singapore
| September 16, 2004 |
| Peter Burian
| Slovakia
| December 21, 2004 |
| Sanja Štiglic
| Slovenia
| February 7, 2007 |
| Collin D. Beck
| Solomon Islands
| November 26, 2003 |
| Elmi Ahmed Duale
| Somalia
| October 18, 2005 |
| Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo
| South Africa
| April 21, 1999 |
| Juan Antonio Yáñez-Barnuevo
| Spain
| May 21, 1999 |
| Prasad Kariyawasam
| Sri Lanka
| April 4, 2005 |
| Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad
| Sudan
| September 14, 2006 |
| Ewald Wensley Limon
| Suriname
| January 21, 2003 |
| Phesheya Mbongeni Dlamini
| Swaziland
| September 8, 2005 |
| Anders Lidén
| Sweden
| September 16, 2004 |
| Peter Maurer
| Switzerland
| September 16, 2004 |
| Bashar Ja’afari
| Syrian Arab Republic
| July 31 2006 |
| Sirodjidin M. Aslov
| Tajikistan
| December 14, 2005 |
| Don Pramudwinai
| Thailand
| May 15, 2007 |
| Goran Stevcevski
| The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
| Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Nelson Santos
| Timor-Leste
| February 7, 2007 |
| Roland Y. Kpotsra
| Togo
| October 1 2007 |
| Fekitamoeloa 'Utoikamanu
| Tonga
| February 15, 2005 |
| Philip Sealy
| Trinidad and Tobago
| October 1, 2002 |
| Jalel Snoussi
| Tunisia
| Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Baki İlkin
| Turkey
| December 7, 2004 |
| Aksoltan T. Ataeva
| Turkmenistan
| February 23, 1995 |
| Afelee F. Pita
| Tuvalu
| December 19, 2006 |
| Francis K. Butagira
| Uganda
| July 18, 2003 |
| Yuriy Sergeyev
| Ukraine
| May 15, 2007 |
| Ahmed Abdulrahman Al-Jarman
| United Arab Emirates
| August 23, 2007 |
| Sir John Sawers KCMG
| United Kingdom
| August 28, 2007 |
| Augustine P. Mahiga
| United Republic of Tanzania
| September 18, 2003 |
| Zalmay Khalilzad
| United States
| March 29, 2007 |
| Elbio O. Rosselli
| Uruguay
| August 11, 2006 |
| Alisher Vohidov
| Uzbekistan
| August 4, 1997 |
| Evelyn Adams
| Vanuatu
| Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Francisco Javier Arias Cárdenas
| Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
| May 1, 2006 |
| Le Luong Minh
| Vietnam
| February 17, 2004 |
| Abdullah M. Alsaidi
| Yemen
| July 22, 2002 |
| Lazarous Kapambwe
| Zambia
| June 18, 2007 |
| Boniface G. Chidyausiku
| Zimbabwe
| January 15, 2003 |
| Archbishop Celestino Migliore
| Holy See*
| January 24, 2003 |
| Riyad Mansour
| Palestine*
| September 17, 2005 |
*non-member observer state
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