The below is a list of the current permanent representatives to the United Nations in New York, the country that they represent, and the date they presented their credentials to the UN Secretary-General.[1] Permanent representatives are also appointed to the United Nations in Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi; and Permanent Delegates to UNESCO. The list is sorted by the official order in which the flags are flown in front of UN buildings. This is also the seating arrangement in the General Assembly.
| Name | Country | Date of presentation of credentials (ao 19 Oct. 2011)[2] |
|---|---|---|
| Zahir Tanin | Afghanistan | 19 December 2006 |
| Ferit Hoxha | Albania | 5 August 2009 |
| Mourad Benmehidi | Algeria | 25 August 2008 |
| Narcís Casal de Fonsdeviela | Andorra | 11 September 2009 |
| Ismael Abraão Gaspar Martins | Angola | 23 May 2001 |
| John William Ashe | Antigua and Barbuda | 3 May 2004 |
| Jorge Argüello | Argentina | 18 June 2007 |
| Garen Nazarian | Armenia | 10 September 2009 |
| Gary Francis Quinlan | Australia | 25 June 2009 |
| Andreas Riecken | Austria | Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Agshin Mehdiyev | Azerbaijan | 30 November 2006 |
| Paulette Bethel | Bahamas | 4 March 2003 |
| Tawfeeq Ahmed Almansoor | Bahrain | 21 January 2003 |
| Abulkalam Abdul Momen | Bangladesh | 27 August 2009 |
| Joseph Goddard | Barbados | 9 September 2010 |
| Zoya Kolontai | Belarus | Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Jan Grauls | Belgium | 5 June 2008 |
| Janine Elizabeth Coye-Felson | Belize | Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Jean-Francis Régis Zinsou | Benin | 7 January 2010 |
| Lhatu Wangchuk | Bhutan | 8 January 2009 |
| Rafael Archondo | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Ivan Barbalić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 8 January 2009 |
| Charles Thembani Ntwaagae | Botswana | 31 July 2008 |
| Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti | Brazil | 25 July 2007 |
| Latif Tuah | Brunei Darussalam | 8 October 2008 |
| Rayko Strahilov Raytchev | Bulgaria | 11 September 2007 |
| Michel Kafando | Burkina Faso | 15 April 1998 |
| Herménégilde Niyonzima | Burundi | 20 October 2011 |
| Kosal Sea | Cambodia | 7 April 2007 |
| Michel Tommo Monthe | Cameroon | 8 September 2008 |
| Guillermo Rishchynski | Canada | 14 September 2011 |
| Antonio Pedro Monteiro Lima | Cape Verde | 23 August 2007 |
| Charles-Armel Doubane | Central African Republic | 23 June 2011 |
| Ahmad Allam-mi | Chad | 8 September 2008 |
| Octavio Errázuriz | Chile | 4 June 2010 |
| Li Baodong | China | 4 March 2010 |
| Néstor Osorio | Colombia | 22 November 2010 |
| Mohamed Toihiri | Comoros | 1 October 2007 |
| Raymond Serge Balé | Congo | 11 November 2008 |
| Eduardo Ulibarri | Costa Rica | 13 August 2010 |
| Youssoufou Bamba | Côte d'Ivoire | 11 January 2006 |
| Ranko Vilović | Croatia | 18 September 2009 |
| Pedro Núñez Mosquera | Cuba | 11 September 2009 |
| Minas A. Hadjimichael | Cyprus | 25 August 2008 |
| Edita Hrdá | Czech Republic | 24 January 2011 |
| Sin Son Ho | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 7 May 2008 |
| Atoki Ileka | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 23 May 2001 |
| Carsten Staur | Denmark | 16 March 2007 |
| Roble Olhaye | Djibouti | 18 January 1988 |
| Vince Henderson | Dominica | 15 March 2010 |
| Héctor Virgilio Alcántara Mejía | Dominican Republic | 23 August 2011 |
| Francisco Carrión-Mena | Ecuador | 9 November 2009 |
| Maged A. Abdelaziz | Egypt | 26 January 2005 |
| Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli | El Salvador | 23 August 2011 |
| Anatolio Ndong Mba | Equatorial Guinea | 7 January 2010 |
| Araya Desta | Eritrea | 14 December 2005 |
| Margus Kolga | Estonia | 16 December 2010 |
| Tekeda Alemu | Ethiopia | 24 January 2011 |
| Peter Thomson | Fiji | 4 March 2010 |
| Jarmo Veli Tapio Viinanen | Finland | 8 April 2009 |
| Gérard Araud | France | 10 September 2009 |
| Nelson Messone | Gabon | 23 February 2011 |
| Susan Waffa-Ogoo | Gambia | 25 August 2008 |
| Alexander Lomaia | Georgia | 16 March 2009 |
| Peter Wittig | Germany | 3 December 2009 |
| Ken Kanda | Ghana | 8 April 2011 |
| Anastassis Mitsialis | Greece | 17 July 2009 |
| Dessima M. Williams | Grenada | 17 February 2009 |
| Gert Rosenthal | Guatemala | 7 May 2008 |
| Mamadi Touré | Guinea | 14 September 2011 |
| João Soares Da Gama | Guinea Bissau | 13 August 2010 |
| George Wilfred Talbot | Guyana | Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Jean Wesley Cazeau | Haiti | Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Mary Elizabeth Flores | Honduras | 29 April 2010 |
| Csaba Körösi | Hungary | 9 September 2010 |
| Gréta Gunnarsdóttir | Iceland | 13 May 2011 |
| Hardeep Singh Puri | India | 8 May 2009 |
| Hasan Kleib | Indonesia | 10 August 2010 |
| Mohammad Khazaee | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 25 July 2007 |
| Hamid Al Bayati | Iraq | 27 April 2006 |
| Anne Anderson | Ireland | 10 September 2009 |
| Ron Prosor | Israel | 8 September 2008 |
| Cesare Maria Ragaglini | Italy | 8 October 2009 |
| Raymond O. Wolfe | Jamaica | 13 June 2006 |
| Tsuneo Nishida | Japan | 24 August 2010 |
| Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein | Jordan | 9 September 2010 |
| Byrganym Aitimova | Kazakhstan | 16 March 2007 |
| Macharia Kamau | Kenya | 16 December 2010 |
| Mansour Ayyad SH A Alotaibi | Kuwait | 4 March 2010 |
| Talaibek Kydyrov | Kyrgyzstan | 19 November 2010 |
| Kanika Phommachanh | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 1 June 2007 |
| Normans Penke | Latvia | 11 November 2008 |
| Nawaf Salam | Lebanon | 13 July 2007 |
| Motlatsi Ramafole | Lesotho | 8 April 2009 |
| Marjon V. Kamara | Liberia | 8 October 2009 |
| Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham | Libya | 16 March 2009 |
| Christian Wenaweser | Liechtenstein | 1 October 2002 |
| Dalius Čekuolis | Lithuania | 2 March 2006 |
| Sylvie Lucas | Luxembourg | 25 August 2008 |
| Zina Andrianarivelo-Razafy | Madagascar | 9 September 2002 |
| Brian G. Bowler | Malawi | 4 June 2010 |
| Hussein Haniff | Malaysia | 13 May 2011 |
| Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed | Maldives | 11 September 2009 |
| Oumar Daou | Mali | 5 June 2008 |
| Saviour F. Borg | Malta | 23 August 2007 |
| Phillip Muller | Marshall Islands | 31 July 2008 |
| Abderrahim Ould Hadrami | Mauritania | 11 September 2007 |
| Milan Jaya Nyamrajsingh Meetarbhan | Mauritius | 24 January 2011 |
| Luis-Alfonso de Alba | Mexico | 14 September 2011 |
| Jeem Lippwe | Federated States of Micronesia | Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Isabelle F. Picco | Monaco | 11 September 2009 |
| Enkhtsetseg Ochir | Mongolia | 1 October 2007 |
| Milorad Šćepanović | Montenegro | 4 June 2010 |
| Mohammed Loulichki | Morocco | 21 November 2008 |
| António Gumende | Mozambique | 20 October 2011 |
| Than Swe | Myanmar | 8 April 2009 |
| Wilfried I. Emvula | Namibia | 31 August 2010 |
| Marlene Moses | Nauru | 30 March 2005 |
| Gyan Chandra Acharya | Nepal | 25 November 2009 |
| Hermanus Schaper | Netherlands | 11 September 2009 |
| Jim McLay | New Zealand | 13 July 2009 |
| María Rubiales de Chamorro | Nicaragua | 13 July 2007 |
| Laouali Labo | Niger | Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| U. Joy Ogwu | Nigeria | 7 May 2008 |
| Morten Wetland | Norway | 8 October 2008 |
| Lyutha Al-Mughairy | Oman | 8 April 2011 |
| Abdullah Hussain Haroon | Pakistan | 8 September 2008 |
| Stuart Beck | Palau | 13 April 2004 |
| Pablo Antonio Thalassinós | Panama | 17 July 2009 |
| Robert Guba Aisi | Papua New Guinea | 25 June 2002 |
| José Antonio Dos Santos | Paraguay | 10 September 2009 |
| Enrique Roman-Morey | Peru | PR-designate |
| Libran N. Cabactulan | Philippines | 29 April 2010 |
| Witold Sobków | Poland | 29 April 2010 |
| José Filipe Moraes Cabral | Portugal | 9 December 2008 |
| Sheikh Meshal Hamad M.J. Al-Thani | Qatar | 2 August 2011 |
| Kim Sook | Republic of Korea | 20 July 2011 |
| Alexandru Cujba | Republic of Moldova | 8 October 2008 |
| Simona Mirela Miculescu | Romania | 5 June 2008 |
| Vitaly I. Churkin | Russian Federation | 1 May 2006 |
| Eugène-Richard Gasana | Rwanda | 17 July 2009 |
| Delano Frank Bart | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 30 November 2006 |
| Donatus Keith St. Aimee | Saint Lucia | 7 May 2008 |
| Camillo Gonsalves | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 6 November 2007 |
| Ali'ioaiga Feturi Elisaia | Samoa | 18 September 2003 |
| Daniele D. Bodini | San Marino | 9 August 2005 |
| Ovidio Manuel Barbosa Pequeno | São Tomé and Príncipe | 27 April 2006 |
| Abdallah Yahya A. Al-Mouallimi | Saudi Arabia | 23 June 2011 |
| Abdou Salam Diallo | Senegal | 19 November 2010 |
| Feodor Starčević | Serbia | 3 June 2009 |
| Ronald Jean Jumeau | Seychelles | 23 August 2007 |
| Shekou M. Touray | Sierra Leone | 8 January 2009 |
| Albert Chua | Singapore | 23 August 2011 |
| Miloš Koterec | Slovakia | 11 September 2009 |
| Sanja Štiglic | Slovenia | 7 February 2007 |
| Collin D. Beck | Solomon Islands | 26 November 2003 |
| Elmi Ahmed Duale | Somalia | 18 October 2005 |
| Baso Sangqu | South Africa | 16 March 2009 |
| Juan Pablo de Laiglesia | Spain | 16 December 2010 |
| Palitha T. B. Kohona | Sri Lanka | 11 September 2009 |
| Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman | Sudan | 13 August 2010 |
| Henry L. Mac-Donald | Suriname | 16 August 2007 |
| Zwelethu Mnisi | Swaziland | 24 August 2010 |
| Mårten Grunditz | Sweden | 4 June 2010 |
| Paul Seger | Switzerland | 4 June 2010 |
| Bashar Ja’afari | Syrian Arab Republic | 31 July 2006 |
| Sirodjidin M. Aslov | Tajikistan | 14 December 2005 |
| Norachit Sinhaseni | Thailand | 5 August 2009 |
| Pajo Avirovikj | The Republic of Macedonia | 13 May 2011 |
| Sofia Mesquíta Borges | Timor-Leste | 4 March 2010 |
| Kodjo Menan | Togo | 25 June 2009 |
| Sonatane T. Taumeopeau-Tupou | Tonga | 3 June 2009 |
| Rodney Charles | Trinidad and Tobago | 16 December 2010) |
| Othman Jerandi | Tunisia | 23 August 2011 |
| Ertuğrul Apakan | Turkey | 27 August 2009 |
| Aksoltan T. Ataeva | Turkmenistan | 23 February 1995 |
| Afelee F. Pita | Tuvalu | 19 December 2006 |
| Adonia Ayebare | Uganda | Chargé d'affaires a.i. |
| Yuriy Sergeyev | Ukraine | 15 May 2007 |
| Ahmed Abdulrahman Al-Jarman | United Arab Emirates | 23 August 2007 |
| Sir Mark Lyall Grant | United Kingdom | 9 November 2009 |
| Ombeni Y. Sefue | United Republic of Tanzania | 31 August 2010 |
| Susan E. Rice | United States of America | 26 January 2009 |
| José Luis Cancela | Uruguay | 31 July 2008 |
| Murad Askarov | Uzbekistan | 17 February 2009 |
| Donald Kalpokas | Vanuatu | 6 November 2007 |
| Jorge Valero Briceño | Venezuela | 31 July 2008 |
| Lê Lương Minh | Viet Nam | 17 February 2004 |
| Abdullah M. Alsaidi | Yemen | 22 July 2002 |
| Lazarous Kapambwe | Zambia | 18 June 2007 |
| Chitsaka Chipaziwa | Zimbabwe | 13 August 2010 |
| Thomas Mayr-Harting | European Union ¤ | 20 October 2011 |
| Francis Chullikatt | Holy See ¤ | 17 July 2010 |
| Riyad H. Mansour | Palestine ¤ | 17 September 2005 |
| Robert L. Shafer | Sovereign Military Order of Malta ¤ | 8 June 2004[3] |
¤ = non-member observers