Member state

Papua New Guinea at the United Nations

Admitted

1975-10-10

ISO 3166-1

PG / PNG

Admitted by

A/RES/3368 (XXX)

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

1986 1985 1984

Permanent mission

Mission

Permanent Mission of Papua New Guinea to the United Nations

Address

Permanent Mission of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea to the United Nations, 201 East 42nd Street, Suite 2411, New York, NY 10017

National holiday

Independence Day, 16 September

Accredited diplomats

3

Accredited diplomats

• Mr. Max Hufanen Rai Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
• Mr. Fred Sarufa Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Deputy Permanent Representative
• Col. Andrew Ringrowe Dopeke Attaché / Defense Adviser

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

50 statements to the General Debate since 1976, 138,711 words in all. The longest was 2021, at 5,891 words, delivered by James Marape.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Prime Minister ×11, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×10, Deputy Prime Minister ×4, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade ×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

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

Every fact on this page, with where it came from and how sure we are.