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Member state

Colombia at the United Nations

Flag of Colombia
Flag of Colombia.svg by See File history below for details (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1945-11-05
ISO 3166-1
CO / COL
Charter signed
1945-06-26
Charter ratified
1945-11-05

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 1945-11-05

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

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Human Rights Council

2027 pending 2026 2025

Security Council

2027 pending 2026 2012 2011 2002 2001 1990 1989 1970 1969 1958 1957 1954 1953 1948 1947

Permanent representatives

4 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Leonor Zalabata 2022-10-062026-08-07
Guillermo Fernández de Soto 2018-10-132022-08-07
María Emma Mejía Vélez 2014-02-182018-10-01
Claudia Blum 2006-09-112010-11-22

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations, 140 East 57th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10022
National holiday
Independence Day, 20 July
Accredited diplomats
16

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1993
Adult literacy rate 95.34 2024
CO2 emissions per capita 1.7978 2024
GDP 4.5741e+11 2025
GNI per capita 7,900 2025
Life expectancy at birth 77.913 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 3.35903 2024
Net official development assistance received 1.03131e+09 2023
Population 5.34256e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 1,464 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 79,669 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

77 statements to the General Debate since 1946, 222,059 words in all. The longest was 1963, at 6,213 words, delivered by Mr. ZEA.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×30, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×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 of Colombia
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Colombia.svg by See File history below for details (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Colombia
Location. COL orthographic (San Andrés and Providencia special).svg by Addicted04 (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

87 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 - 5 Nov 1945
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 6 Aug 1974 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 18 Apr 1961 5 Apr 1973
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 18 Apr 1961 -
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 24 Apr 1963 6 Sep 1972
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality 24 Apr 1963 -
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 24 Apr 1963 -
Convention on special missions - 29 Oct 2004 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 12 Aug 1949 27 Oct 1959
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports 31 Jul 1986 -
Convention on the Rights of the Child 26 Jan 1990 28 Jan 1991
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty - 5 Aug 1997 a
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families - 24 May 1995 a
Agreement establishing the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean 24 Jul 1992 9 May 1995
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 10 May 2011
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 27 Sep 2007 11 Jul 2012
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 23 Mar 1967 2 Sep 1981
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 21 Dec 1966 29 Oct 1969
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 21 Dec 1966 29 Oct 1969
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 21 Dec 1966 29 Oct 1969
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 23 May 1988 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 Jul 1980 19 Jan 1982
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 10 Apr 1985 8 Dec 1987
Constitution of the World Health Organization 22 Jul 1946 14 May 1959 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique - 22 Jul 1946 s
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - 10 Apr 2008 a
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 15 Aug 2014 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 4 Mar 1980 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 -
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 3 Mar 1975 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 12 May 1981 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 3 Mar 1975 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 20 Dec 1988 10 Jun 1994
Protocol amending the Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications, signed at Paris, on 4 May 1910 1 Jun 1949 -
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 10 Jul 2001 a
Agreement to establish the South Centre 30 Sep 1994 22 Sep 2022
United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts 27 Sep 2007 -
Agreement establishing the Caribbean Development Bank - 22 Nov 1974 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 16 Jul 1979 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 8 Apr 1979 25 Nov 1981
Convention on the International Maritime Organization 6 Mar 1948 19 Nov 1974 A
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials 22 Nov 1950 -
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 17 Jun 1976 a
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms 29 Oct 1971 14 Feb 1994
International Agreement for the Establishment of the University for Peace - 18 Mar 1981 s
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 21 Nov 1986 3 Mar 1997
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 31 Dec 1992 13 Dec 1996
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 3 May 2007 15 Mar 2013
International Cocoa Agreement, 2010 - 10 May 2023 a
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 5 Aug 1986 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 10 Dec 1998 5 Aug 2002
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 30 Oct 2001 14 Sep 2004
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 12 Dec 2000 4 Aug 2004
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 18 Dec 2003 15 Apr 2009
United Nations Convention against Corruption 10 Dec 2003 27 Oct 2006
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 21 Apr 2026 -
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 14 Apr 2005 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 16 Jan 1996 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 10 Jun 2016 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 14 Sep 2004 a
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone 29 Apr 1958 -
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 20 Sep 2023 -
Convention on the High Seas 29 Apr 1958 -
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas 29 Apr 1958 3 Jan 1963
Convention on the Continental Shelf 29 Apr 1958 8 Jan 1962
Optional Protocol of Signature concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - [29 Apr 1958 s] (withdrawn)
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 25 Sep 1979 a
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 12 Mar 2026
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations - 24 Jul 2009 a
Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite - 20 Dec 2013 a
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations - 12 Jun 2008 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) - 6 Mar 2000 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 13 Jan 1993 5 Apr 2000
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 29 Jan 2008
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 3 Dec 1997 6 Sep 2000
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 10 Sep 2015
Arms Trade Treaty 24 Sep 2013 15 Oct 2024
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 3 Aug 2018 -
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 14 Oct 1994 8 Jun 1999
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 11 Sep 1998 3 Dec 2008
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 22 Oct 2008
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 26 Aug 2019
Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean 11 Dec 2019 25 Sep 2024
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 16 Jul 1990 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 22 Mar 1989 31 Dec 1996
Convention on Biological Diversity 12 Jun 1992 28 Nov 1994

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
S/RES/2824(2026) - yes
A/RES/80/282 - yes
A/RES/80/286 - yes
S/RES/2825(2026) - yes
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
iso2CO wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900739+00:00
iso3COL wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900749+00:00
m49170 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132441+00:00
nameColombia wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900715+00:00
un_admission_date1945-11-05 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900727+00:00
unsd_nameColombia un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132455+00:00

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