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Lesotho at the United Nations

Flag of Lesotho
Flag of Lesotho.svg by See File history below for details (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1966-10-17
ISO 3166-1
LS / LSO
Admitted by
A/RES/2137 (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.

OrganisationJoined
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.

Economic and Social Council

2014 2013 2012 2000 1999 1998 1990 1989 1988 1980 1979 1978

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Lesotho to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Lesotho the United Nations, 210 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016
National holiday
4 October
Accredited diplomats
8

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 2000
Adult literacy rate 90.45 2024
CO2 emissions per capita 0.428078 2024
GDP 2.57357e+09 2025
GNI per capita 1,280 2025
Life expectancy at birth 57.798 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.56745 2024
Net official development assistance received 1.72316e+08 2023
Population 2.36332e+06 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 478 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 27 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

54 statements to the General Debate since 1967, 141,143 words in all. The longest was 1989, at 5,872 words, delivered by KING Moshoeshoe II.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Prime Minister ×22, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×7, King ×1, Prime minister ×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 Lesotho
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Lesotho.svg by Vectorised by user:Fenn-O-maniC (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Lesotho
Location. Lesotho (orthographic projection with inset).svg by Flappiefh (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

64 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 - 26 Nov 1969 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 26 Nov 1969 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 26 Nov 1969 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 26 Jul 1972 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 29 Nov 1974 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child 21 Aug 1990 10 Mar 1992
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families 24 Sep 2004 16 Sep 2005
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - 2 Dec 2008 a
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 22 Sep 2010 6 Dec 2013
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 4 Nov 1971 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 9 Sep 1992 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 9 Sep 1992 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 6 Sep 2000 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 4 Nov 1983 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 Jul 1980 22 Aug 1995
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 12 Nov 2001 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 7 Jul 1967 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 23 Jun 2004 14 Jan 2005
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 24 Sep 2004 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 14 May 1981 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 - 4 Nov 1974 d
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 4 Nov 1974 d
Convention on psychotropic substances - 23 Apr 1975 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 4 Nov 1974 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 28 Mar 1995 a
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 18 Jun 1981 18 Jun 1981
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank - 2 Jul 1973 a
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States - 28 May 1969 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 13 Dec 1977 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 18 Jun 1981 18 Jun 1981
International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods - 30 Mar 1988 a
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 - 26 Oct 1989 a
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 26 Oct 1989 a
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 4 Nov 1974 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 30 Nov 1998 6 Sep 2000
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 6 Sep 2000 12 Nov 2001
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 14 Dec 2000 24 Sep 2003
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court - 16 Sep 2005 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption 16 Sep 2005 16 Sep 2005
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages 17 Apr 1980 5 Nov 1980
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 6 Nov 2009 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 6 Sep 2000 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 12 Nov 2001 a
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone - 23 Oct 1973 d
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 9 Jun 2025 -
Convention on the High Seas - 23 Oct 1973 d
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas - 23 Oct 1973 d
Convention on the Continental Shelf - 23 Oct 1973 d
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 13 Jun 1989 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 Sep 2000 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 7 Dec 1994 7 Dec 1994
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 30 Sep 1996 14 Sep 1999
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 4 Dec 1997 2 Dec 1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 28 May 2010
Arms Trade Treaty 25 Sep 2013 25 Jan 2016
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 26 Sep 2019 6 Jun 2020
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 15 Oct 1994 12 Sep 1995
Lusaka Agreement on Co-operative Enforcement Operations Directed at Illegal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora - 20 Jun 1995 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 30 May 2008 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 Jan 2002 23 Jan 2002
Minamata Convention on Mercury - 12 Nov 2014 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 25 Mar 1994 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 31 May 2000 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 11 Jun 1992 10 Jan 1995

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
iso2LS wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902159+00:00
iso3LSO wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902171+00:00
m49426 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.134853+00:00
nameLesotho wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902141+00:00
un_admission_date1966-10-17 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902151+00:00
unsd_nameLesotho un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.134859+00:00

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