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Belarus at the United Nations

Flag of Belarus
Flag of Belarus.svg by See File history below for details (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1991-08-25
ISO 3166-1
BY / BLR
Charter signed
1945-06-26
Charter ratified
1945-10-24

A founding Member State: one of the fifty-one that signed the Charter at San Francisco in 1945.

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 1991-08-25

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

2020 2019 2018 2014 2013 2012 2009 2008 2007 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992

Permanent representatives

8 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Syarhei Linh 2000-08-112002-10-16
Andrei Dapkiunas -in office / not recorded
Hienadz Buraukin -in office / not recorded
Alyaksandar Sychow -in office / not recorded
Valancin Rybakow -in office / not recorded
Fyeadosiy Hraznow -in office / not recorded
Lew Maksimaw -in office / not recorded
Vitaly S. Smirnov -in office / not recorded

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Belarus to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Belarus to the United Nations, 136 East 67th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10065
National holiday
Independence Day, 3 July
Accredited diplomats
9

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1989
Adult literacy rate 99.87 2019
CO2 emissions per capita 5.93649 2024
GDP 9.33972e+10 2025
GNI per capita 9,160 2025
Life expectancy at birth 74.3653 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 2.07365 2024
Net official development assistance received 1.14753e+08 2023
Population 9.08599e+06 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 40,794 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 19,462 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

80 statements to the General Debate since 1946, 294,381 words in all. The longest was 1960, at 9,616 words, delivered by Mr. MAZUROV.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×20, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×5, Deputy Prime Minister ×2, Chair of the delegation ×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.

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Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Belarus
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Belarus (2020–present).svg by [https://vk.com/mllk91 Кот Баюн], Добромир Костадинов (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

91 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
Charter of the United Nations - 24 Oct 1945
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 22 Oct 1953 a
Vienna Convention on the Representation of States in their Relations with International Organizations of a Universal Character 13 Oct 1975 24 Aug 1978
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 18 Mar 1966 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 18 Apr 1961 14 May 1964
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 21 Mar 1989 a
Convention on special missions - 28 Aug 1997 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 16 Dec 1949 11 Aug 1954
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 16 May 1986 1 Jul 1987
Convention on the Rights of the Child 26 Jan 1990 1 Oct 1990
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 28 Sep 2015 29 Nov 2016
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 7 Mar 1966 8 Apr 1969
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 19 Mar 1968 12 Nov 1973
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 19 Mar 1968 12 Nov 1973
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - [30 Sep 1992 a] (withdrawn)
Convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity 7 Jan 1969 8 May 1969
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid 4 Mar 1974 2 Dec 1975
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 Jul 1980 4 Feb 1981
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 19 Dec 1985 13 Mar 1987
Constitution of the World Health Organization 22 Jul 1946 7 Apr 1948 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique - 22 Jul 1946 s
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 17 Jun 2004 8 Sep 2005
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 23 Aug 2001 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 31 Jul 1961 20 Feb 1964
Convention on psychotropic substances 30 Dec 1971 15 Dec 1978
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 13 Sep 2001 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 27 Feb 1989 15 Oct 1990
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 9 Oct 1989 a
United Nations Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-by Letters of Credit 3 Dec 1996 23 Jan 2002
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States 28 Dec 1965 11 Jul 1972
Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods 14 Jun 1974 23 Jan 1997 P
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 10 Dec 1980 17 Jun 1985
Customs Convention on Containers, 1972 22 Oct 1973 1 Sep 1976
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 5 Apr 1993 a
International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods - 5 Apr 1993 a
Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) - 5 Apr 1993 a
Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) - 5 Apr 1993 a
Agreement concerning the adoption of harmonized technical United Nations Regulations for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted and/or be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these United Nations Regulations - 3 May 1995 a
European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles Engaged in International Road Transport (AETR) - 5 Apr 1993 a
Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be used for such Carriage (ATP) 1 - 3 Aug 2001 a
European Agreement supplementing the Convention on road traffic opened for signature at Vienna on 8 November 1968 - 17 Dec 1974 a
European Agreement supplementing the Convention on Road Signs and Signals - 17 Dec 1974 a
Protocol on Road Markings, additional to the European Agreement supplementing the Convention on Road Signs and Signals - 25 Apr 1984 a
European Agreement on main international traffic arteries (AGR) - 17 Dec 1982 a
Agreement concerning the Adoption of Uniform Conditions for Periodical Technical Inspections of Wheeled Vehicles and the Reciprocal Recognition of such Inspections - 2 Mar 2004 a
Agreement concerning the Establishing of Global Technical Regulations for Wheeled Vehicles, Equipment and Parts which can be fitted and/or be used on Wheeled Vehicles - 2 Jan 2015 a
European Agreement on Main International Railway Lines (AGC) 27 Aug 1986 1 Apr 1987 A
European Agreement on Main Inland Waterways of International Importance (AGN) - 26 Mar 2008 a
European Agreement on Important International Combined Transport Lines and Related Installations (AGTC) - 5 Mar 1997 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 29 Nov 2016 A
Convention relating to the unification of certain rules concerning collisions in inland navigation - 30 Aug 2006 a
Convention on the registration of inland navigation vessels - 30 Aug 2006 a
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 27 Feb 2003 a
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms - 17 Jan 2003 a
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 - 27 Sep 1993 a
Convention on the Political Rights of Women 31 Mar 1953 11 Aug 1954
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 12 Nov 2001 6 Oct 2004
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 14 Dec 2000 25 Jun 2003
United Nations Convention against Corruption 28 Apr 2004 17 Feb 2005
United Nations Convention against Cybercrime; Strengthening International Cooperation for Combating Certain Crimes Committed by Means of Information and Communications Technology Systems and for the Sharing of Evidence in Electronic Form of Serious Crimes 25 Oct 2025 -
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 1 Jul 1987 a
International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries 13 Dec 1990 28 May 1997
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents 11 Jun 1974 5 Feb 1976
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel 23 Oct 1995 29 Nov 2000
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings 20 Sep 1999 1 Oct 2001
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone 30 Oct 1958 27 Feb 1961
Convention on the High Seas 30 Oct 1958 27 Feb 1961
Convention on the Continental Shelf 31 Oct 1958 27 Feb 1961
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 29 Dec 1958 15 Nov 1960
European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration 21 Apr 1961 14 Oct 1963
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 15 Jul 2020 AA
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations - 30 Dec 1999 a
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques 18 May 1977 7 Jun 1978
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 23 Jun 1982
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 14 Jan 1993 11 Jul 1996
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 13 Sep 2000
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction - 3 Sep 2003 a
Convention on long-range transboundary air pollution 14 Nov 1979 13 Jun 1980
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 29 Aug 2001 a
Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters [16 Dec 1998 ] [ 9 Mar 2000 AA] (withdrawn)
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 11 Mar 2024 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - 3 Feb 2004 a
Minamata Convention on Mercury 23 Sep 2014 -
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer 22 Mar 1985 20 Jun 1986 A
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 10 Dec 1999 a
Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context 26 Feb 1991 10 Nov 2005 A
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes - 29 May 2003 a
Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents - 25 Jun 2003 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 11 Jun 1992 8 Sep 1993

Recorded votes

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

Provenance

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

AttributeValueSourceConfidenceFetched
iso2BY wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903611+00:00
iso3BLR wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903622+00:00
m49112 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.135855+00:00
nameBelarus wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903589+00:00
un_admission_date1991-08-25 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903599+00:00
unsd_nameBelarus un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.135868+00:00

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