Member state

Namibia at the United Nations

Admitted

1990-04-23

ISO 3166-1

NA / NAM

Admitted by

A/RES/S-18/1

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.

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

2011 2010 2009 2006 2005 2004

Human Rights Council

2022 2021 2020 2016 2015 2014

Security Council

2000 1999

Permanent mission

Mission

Permanent Mission of Namibia to the United Nations

Address

Permanent Mission of the Republic of Namibia to the United Nations, 135 East 36th Street, New York, NY 10016

National holiday

Independence Day, 21 March

Accredited diplomats

7

Accredited diplomats

• Mr. Neville Melvin Gertze Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
• Mrs. Helena Ndapewa Kuzee Counsellor / Deputy Permanent Representative
• Mrs. Audrey Fay Gantana First Secretary
• Mrs. Nekwaya Helalia Nalitye Iileka Second Secretary
• Mr. Petrus Natangwe Lukas Second Secretary
• Mrs. Elizabeth Guriras Third Secretary / Secretary to the Permanent Representative
• Ms. Lwaba Innes Jario Economic Attaché

The numbers

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

36 statements to the General Debate since 1990, 75,480 words in all. The longest was 2000, at 4,764 words, delivered by Theo-Ben Gurirab.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×21, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×10, UN Representative ×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

Treaties joined

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

Recorded votes

Provenance

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