Member state

Botswana at the United Nations

Flag of Botswana.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Admitted: 1966-10-17
ISO 3166-1: BW / BWA
Admitted by: A/RES/2136 (XXI)

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.

Organisation	Joined
United Nations	1966-10-17

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.

Permanent mission

Mission: Permanent Mission of Botswana to the United Nations
Address: Permanent Mission of Botswana to the United Nations, 154 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017
National holiday: 30 September
Accredited diplomats: 10

Accredited diplomats

Mr. Collen Vixen Kelapile Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
Mr. Ishmael Tsholofelo Dabutha Minister Plenipotentiary / Deputy Permanent Representative
Ms. Takesure Mlilo Counsellor
Ms. Lorato Motsumi Counsellor
Mr. Katlego Boase Mmalane Counsellor
Mr. Monei Fetsi Future Rapuleng Counsellor I
Mr. Ronald Seabo Badubi First Secretary
Col. Miliko Laba Attaché / Military Adviser
Ms. Tidimalo Kentse Jokase Attaché
Ms. Irene Gofaone Rowland Counsellor III

The numbers

Indicator	Latest	Year
Adult literacy rate	81.19	2003
CO2 emissions per capita	2.73749	2024
GDP	1.99285e+10	2025
GNI per capita	7,390	2025
Life expectancy at birth	69.293	2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)	2.83393	2024
Net official development assistance received	2.84583e+08	2023
Population	2.56212e+06	2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)	847	2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate)	384	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

53 statements to the General Debate since 1967, 145,995 words in all. The longest was 1984, at 5,449 words, delivered by Chiepe.

Of the 31 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×12, President ×11, Vice-President ×5, UN Representative ×2. 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. Coat of arms of Botswana.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Location of Botswana — Location. Botswana (orthographic projection).svg by original map : L'Américain, South Sudan : Flappiefh thanks to the perlshaper script (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

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

Treaty	Signed	Ratified or acceded
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies	-	5 Apr 1983 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations	-	11 Apr 1969 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning Acquisition of Nationality	-	11 Apr 1969 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes	-	11 Apr 1969 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations	-	26 Mar 2008 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality	-	12 May 2008 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes	-	12 May 2008 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child	-	14 Mar 1995 a
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities	-	12 Jul 2021 a
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination	-	20 Feb 1974 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights	8 Sep 2000	8 Sep 2000
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women	-	13 Aug 1996 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment	8 Sep 2000	8 Sep 2000
Constitution of the World Health Organization	-	26 Feb 1975 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control	16 Jun 2003	31 Jan 2005
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees	-	6 Jan 1969 a
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961	-	27 Dec 1984 a
Convention on psychotropic substances	-	27 Dec 1984 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961	-	27 Dec 1984 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances	-	13 Aug 1996 a
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank	-	31 Mar 1972 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development	-	21 Jul 1977 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization	-	21 Jun 1985 a
Protocol concerning countries or territories at present occupied	-	3 Jan 1967 a
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978	-	16 Feb 1988 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization	-	22 Oct 2021 A
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court	8 Sep 2000	8 Sep 2000
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism	8 Sep 2000	8 Sep 2000
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime	10 Apr 2002	29 Aug 2002
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court	-	13 Nov 2008 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption	-	27 Jun 2011 a
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages	-	8 Sep 2000 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents	-	25 Oct 2000 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel	-	1 Mar 2000 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings	-	8 Sep 2000 a
Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction	24 Sep 2024	25 Sep 2025
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards	-	20 Dec 1971 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction	-	31 Aug 1998 a
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	16 Sep 2002	28 Oct 2002
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction	3 Dec 1997	1 Mar 2000
Convention on Cluster Munitions	3 Dec 2008	27 Jun 2011
Arms Trade Treaty	-	7 Jun 2019 a
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons	26 Sep 2019	15 Jul 2020
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa	12 Oct 1995	11 Sep 1996
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses	-	20 Jan 2026 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade	-	5 Feb 2008 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants	-	28 Oct 2002 a
Minamata Convention on Mercury	-	3 Jun 2016 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer	-	4 Dec 1991 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal	-	20 May 1998 a
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes	-	20 Jan 2026 a
Convention on Biological Diversity	8 Jun 1992	12 Oct 1995

Recorded votes

Resolution	Date	Vote
A/RES/80/282	-	non-voting
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.

Attribute	Value	Source	Confidence	Fetched
iso2	BW	wikidata	1.0	2026-08-26T06:55:17.907897+00:00
iso3	BWA	wikidata	1.0	2026-08-26T06:55:17.907907+00:00
m49	72	un_sdg	1.0	2026-08-26T06:55:41.143715+00:00
name	Botswana	wikidata	1.0	2026-08-26T06:55:17.907878+00:00
un_admission_date	1966-10-17	wikidata	1.0	2026-08-26T06:55:17.907887+00:00
unsd_name	Botswana	un_sdg	1.0	2026-08-26T06:55:41.143726+00:00

Where this page comes from

UN General Debate Corpus (Jankin, Baturo & Dasandi) — CC0 1.0 · source
UN Statistics Division SDG Indicators API — CC BY 4.0 · source
Wikidata — CC0 1.0 · source
World Bank Open Data — CC BY 4.0 · source