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Afghanistan at the United Nations

Flag of Afghanistan
Flag of the Taliban.svg by {{autvec| |Lexicon}} (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1946-11-19
ISO 3166-1
AF / AFG
Admitted by
A/RES/34 (I)

International organisations

Every organisation this state belongs to that is compiled here, with the date it joined. Membership is resolved against this site’s own list of member states rather than taken from a query.

OrganisationJoined
United Nations 1946-11-19

Service on principal organs

Elected terms as recorded by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. A year marked pending is one the Library publishes as a partial list because its elections have not yet been held.

Economic and Social Council

2024 2023 2022 2018 2017 2016 1978 1977 1976 1961 1960 1959

Human Rights Council

2020 2019 2018

Permanent representatives

2 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Mahmoud Saikal 2015-102019-02
Ravan A. G. Farhâdi 19932006

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations, 633 Third Avenue, 27th Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Independence Day, 19 August
Accredited diplomats
2

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1979
Adult literacy rate 37.27 2021
CO2 emissions per capita 0.28298 2024
GDP 1.77785e+10 2024
GNI per capita 390 2024
Life expectancy at birth 66.289 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.82793 2021
Net official development assistance received 3.06033e+09 2023
Population 4.38441e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 20,869 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 2.67156e+06 2025

World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0. The sparkline shows the shape of each run from its first reported year; the number beside it carries the magnitude, and there is deliberately no axis on it.

General Debate statements

63 statements to the General Debate since 1952, 187,211 words in all. The longest was 1995, at 5,766 words, delivered by Mr. Ghafoorzai.

Of the 27 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×12, President ×9, Chair of the Delegation ×1, Chief Executive ×1. Earlier years are excluded because UN records do not consistently identify a speaker’s post before 1994, and counting those years as though they did would make any state look as though it sent nobody senior.

2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1969 1968 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1952

Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Afghanistan
Coat of arms. Arms of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

69 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.

TreatySignedRatified or acceded
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 5 Sep 1947 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 6 Oct 1965 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 22 Mar 1956 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child 27 Sep 1990 28 Mar 1994
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - 18 Sep 2012 a
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 6 Jul 1983 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 24 Jan 1983 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 24 Jan 1983 a
Convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity - 22 Jul 1983 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 6 Jul 1983 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 14 Aug 1980 5 Mar 2003
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 4 Feb 1985 1 Apr 1987
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 19 Apr 1948 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique - 19 Apr 1948 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 29 Jun 2004 13 Aug 2010
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 30 Aug 2005 a
Protocol amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs, concluded at The Hague on 23 January 1912, at Geneva on 11 February 1925 and 19 February 1925, and 13 July 1931, at Bangkok on 27 November 1931 and at Geneva on 26 June 1936 - 11 Dec 1946 s
Protocol Bringing under International Control Drugs Outside the Scope of the Convention of 13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 11 December 1946 - 19 Nov 1948 s
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 30 Mar 1961 19 Mar 1963
Convention on psychotropic substances - 21 May 1985 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 19 Feb 2015 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 20 Dec 1988 14 Feb 1992
Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 12 November 1947, to amend the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children, concluded at Geneva on 30 September 1921, and the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age, concluded at Geneva on 11 October 1933 - 12 Nov 1947 s
Protocol to amend the Convention for the suppression of the circulation of, and traffic in, obscene publications, concluded at Geneva on 12 September 1923 - 12 Nov 1947 s
Multilateral Agreement for the Establishment of an International Think Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries 19 Oct 2011 20 Feb 2013
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States 8 Jul 1965 -
Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank 4 Dec 1965 22 Aug 1966
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 13 Dec 1978 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 13 Feb 1980 9 Sep 1981
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Commercial Road Vehicles - 19 Dec 1977 a
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 11 Oct 1971 a
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 23 Sep 1982 a
Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) - 7 Oct 2020 a
Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network 26 Apr 2004 8 Jan 2006
Intergovernmental Agreement on Dry Ports - 1 Aug 2016 a
Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural Character 29 Dec 1949 -
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials 8 Oct 1951 19 Mar 1958
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 13 Sep 1983 6 Jul 1988
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 16 Nov 1966 a
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 - 16 Aug 1954 s
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court - 10 Feb 2003 a
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 24 Sep 2003 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 14 Dec 2000 24 Sep 2003
United Nations Convention against Corruption 20 Feb 2004 25 Aug 2008
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 24 Sep 2003 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 24 Sep 2003 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 24 Sep 2003 a
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone 30 Oct 1958 -
Convention on the High Seas 30 Oct 1958 28 Apr 1959
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas 30 Oct 1958 -
Convention on the Continental Shelf 30 Oct 1958 -
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 30 Nov 2004 a
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 -
Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity 12 Jan 1977 17 May 1977
Agreement establishing the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development 23 Aug 1978 23 Dec 1999 A
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques - 22 Oct 1985 a
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (with Protocols I, II and III) 10 Apr 1981 9 Aug 2017
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 14 Jan 1993 24 Sep 2003
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 2003 24 Sep 2003
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction - 11 Sep 2002 a
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 8 Sep 2011
Arms Trade Treaty - 29 Jul 2020 a
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 1 Nov 1995 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 6 Mar 2013 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - 20 Feb 2013 a
Minamata Convention on Mercury - 2 May 2017 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 17 Jun 2004 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 22 Mar 1989 25 Mar 2013
Convention on Biological Diversity 12 Jun 1992 19 Sep 2002

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - non-voting
A/RES/80/286 - non-voting
A/RES/80/296 - non-voting
A/RES/80/293 B - non-voting
A/RES/80/294 - non-voting
A/RES/80/293 A - non-voting
A/RES/80/297 - non-voting
A/RES/80/299 - non-voting

Provenance

Every fact on this page, with where it came from and how sure we are.

AttributeValueSourceConfidenceFetched
iso2AF wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901594+00:00
iso3AFG wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901602+00:00
m494 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.134410+00:00
nameAfghanistan wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901570+00:00
un_admission_date1946-11-19 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901580+00:00
unsd_nameAfghanistan un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.134420+00:00

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