List of current permanent representatives to the United Nations should not be confused with Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
This is a list of the current permanent representatives to the United Nations at United Nations Headquarters, New York City. The list includes the country that they represent and the date that they presented their credentials to the UN Secretary-General. 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. Permanent representatives are also appointed to the United Nations Offices in Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi; and permanent delegates to specialized agencies of the UN, such as FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy and UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.
See main article: United Nations General Assembly observers.
(as of 3 September 2020)
| State | Name | Date of presentation of credentials | Former Permanent Observers | ||||
| Holy See | Gabriele Giordano Caccia | Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations | |||||
| Palestine | Riyad H. Mansour | [9] | Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations |
| Entity | Name | Date of presentation of credentials | |||
| African Union | Fatima Kyari Mohammed[10] | ||||
| Asian–African Legal Consultative Organization | Roy S. Lee[11] | ||||
| Caribbean Community | Missouri Sherman-Peter[12] | ||||
| Central American Integration System | Carlos Campos | ||||
| Commonwealth of Nations | Patricia Scotland | ||||
| Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf | Abdulaziz Abdulrahman Alammar[13] | ||||
| Economic Community of Central African States | Jeanne d'Arc Byaje[14] | ||||
| Economic Community of Western African States | Tanou Koné[15] | ||||
| European Public Law Organization | Barbara Faedda[16] | ||||
| European Union | Stavros Lambrinidis[17] | ||||
| Gulf Cooperation Council | Mohammed Alnowaiser[18] | ||||
| International Anti-Corruption Academy | Larry D. Johnson | ||||
| International Chamber of Commerce | Andrew Wilson[19] | ||||
| International Criminal Police Organization | Odd Reidar Humlegård | ||||
| International Development Law Organization | Patrizio M. Civili | ||||
| International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance | Massimo Tommasoli | ||||
| International Organization for Migration | Ashraf Elnour Mustafa Mohamed Nour[20] | ||||
| International Organisation of La Francophonie | Ifigeneia Kontoleontos[21] | ||||
| International Renewable Energy Agency | Alain Wilfired Biya[22] | ||||
| International Seabed Authority | Michael W. Lodge[23] | ||||
| International Union for Conservation of Nature | David Chadwick O'Connor[24] | ||||
| International Youth Organization for Ibero-America | Daniel del Valle Blanco | ||||
| Latin American, Caribbean Indigenous Peoples Fund | Oscar Horacio Aguilar Colindres[25] | ||||
| League of Arab States | Maged Abdelfattah Abdelaziz[26] | ||||
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | Robin Ogilvy[27] | ||||
| Organization of American States | Gonzalo Koncke[28] | ||||
| Organisation of Islamic Cooperation | Agshin Mehdiyev[29] | ||||
| Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean | Qazi Shaukat Fareed[30] | ||||
| Partners in Population and Development | Mohammad Nurul Alam[31] | ||||
| South Centre | Manuel F. Montes[32] | ||||
| University for Peace | Narinder Kakar[33] |
Listed below are representatives from organizations, not sovereign states, described by the United Nations as "Other entities having received a standing invitation to participate as observers in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly and maintaining permanent offices at Headquarters." (as of 28 July 2019)
| Entity | Name | Date of presentation of credentials | |||
| International Committee of the Red Cross | Robert Mardini[34] | ||||
| International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies | Richard Blewitt[35] | ||||
| International Olympic Committee | Mario Pescante[36] | ||||
| Inter-Parliamentary Union | Paddy Torsney[37] | ||||
| Sovereign Military Order of Malta | Paul Beresford-Hill[38] |