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Iraq at the United Nations

Flag of Iraq
Flag of Iraq.svg by See File history below for details (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1945-12-21
ISO 3166-1
IQ / IRQ
Charter signed
1945-06-26
Charter ratified
1945-12-21

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 1945-12-21

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

2018 2017 2016 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1966 1965 1964

Human Rights Council

2028 pending 2027 pending 2026 2019 2018 2017

Security Council

1975 1974 1958 1957

Permanent representatives

2 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Mohamed Ali Alhakim 2013-05-032018-10-25
Riyadh al-Qaisi -in office / not recorded

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Iraq to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Iraq to the United Nations, 14 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10075
Accredited diplomats
26

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 2000
Adult literacy rate 84.0649 2021
CO2 emissions per capita 5.18375 2024
GDP 2.54367e+11 2025
GNI per capita 5,690 2025
Life expectancy at birth 72.424 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 2.35714 2024
Net official development assistance received 2.00747e+09 2023
Population 4.70208e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 322,345 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 270,671 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

78 statements to the General Debate since 1947, 270,438 words in all. The longest was 1962, at 7,934 words, delivered by Mr. Jawad.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×10, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×10, Prime Minister ×7, Vice-President ×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 Iraq
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Iraq.svg by Tonyjeff, Omar86, Kafka1 AnonMoos; AnonMoos, Militaryace (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Iraq
Location. Iraq (orthographic-projection).svg by Nikki070, Hogweard (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

76 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 - 21 Dec 1945
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 15 Sep 1949 a
United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property - 2 Dec 2015 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 9 Jul 1954 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 20 Feb 1962 15 Oct 1963
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning Acquisition of Nationality 20 Feb 1962 15 Oct 1963
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 20 Feb 1962 15 Oct 1963
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 14 Jan 1970 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality - 14 Jan 1970 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 20 Jan 1959 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports - 30 Jan 1989 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child - 15 Jun 1994 a
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - 20 Mar 2013 a
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance - 23 Nov 2010 a
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 18 Feb 1969 13 Feb 1970
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 18 Feb 1969 25 Jan 1971
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 18 Feb 1969 25 Jan 1971
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid 1 Jul 1975 9 Jul 1975
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 13 Aug 1986 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 7 Jul 2011 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization 22 Jul 1946 23 Sep 1947 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique 22 Jul 1946 23 Sep 1947 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 29 Jun 2004 17 Mar 2008
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 12 Dec 1946 14 Sep 1950 A
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 12 Jul 1949 27 Jul 1954 A
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium 29 Dec 1953 -
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 30 Mar 1961 29 Aug 1962
Convention on psychotropic substances - 17 May 1976 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 25 Sep 1978 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 22 Jul 1998 a
Protocol amending the International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, signed at Paris on 18 May 1904, and the International Convention for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, signed at Paris on 4 May 1910 - 1 Jun 1949 s
Protocol amending the Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications, signed at Paris, on 4 May 1910 1 Jun 1949 14 Sep 1950 A
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 5 Mar 1990 a
Agreement to establish the South Centre - 24 Jul 1997 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 23 Nov 1977 13 Dec 1977
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 26 Feb 1980 23 Jan 1981
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 27 Mar 2023 a
Agreement on International Roads between Arab Countries 19 Dec 2002 17 Mar 2008
Agreement on International Railways between Arab Countries - 30 Jun 2016 a
Memorandum of Understanding on Maritime Transport Cooperation between Arab Countries - 17 Mar 2008 a
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 28 Aug 1973 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 25 Oct 1978 a
United Nations Convention on Conditions for Registration of Ships - 1 Feb 1989 a
Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural Character - 29 Aug 1952 a
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 11 Aug 1972 A
Protocol to the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials of 22 November 1950 - 13 Apr 1978 a
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 28 Feb 1984 19 Feb 1985
International Agreement on Olive Oil and Table Olives, 2015 - 8 Aug 2026 a
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 - 23 May 1955 A
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 16 Nov 2012 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime - 17 Mar 2008 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption - 17 Mar 2008 a
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages 14 Oct 1980 26 Aug 2013
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 28 Feb 1978 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 30 Jul 2013 a
Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Seabed Authority - 16 Feb 2016 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 11 Nov 2021 a
United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration 13 Feb 2017 20 Aug 2021
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 17 Apr 2024 -
Vienna Convention on succession of States in respect of treaties 23 May 1979 5 Dec 1979
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques 15 Aug 1977 -
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) - 24 Sep 2014 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction - 13 Jan 2009 a
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 19 Aug 2008 26 Sep 2013
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction - 15 Aug 2007 a
Convention on Cluster Munitions 12 Nov 2009 14 May 2013
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 28 May 2010 a
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - 9 Jul 2001 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 18 Apr 2017 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - 8 Mar 2016 a
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 16 Sep 2021
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 25 Jun 2008 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 2 May 2011 a
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes - 24 Mar 2023 a
Convention on Biological Diversity - 28 Jul 2009 a
Multilateral Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation of Copyright Royalties - 15 Jul 1981 a

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - yes
A/RES/80/286 - 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
iso2IQ wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.906923+00:00
iso3IRQ wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.906937+00:00
m49368 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.142404+00:00
nameIraq wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.906782+00:00
un_admission_date1945-12-21 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.906791+00:00
unsd_nameIraq un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.142415+00:00

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