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Member state

Paraguay at the United Nations

Flag of Paraguay
Flag of Paraguay.svg by Republica del Paraguay (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1945-10-24
ISO 3166-1
PY / PRY
Charter signed
1945-06-26
Charter ratified
1945-10-12

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 1945-10-24

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

2026 2025 2024 2021 2020 2019 2008 2007 2006 1996 1995 1994

Human Rights Council

2024 2023 2022 2017 2016 2015

Security Council

1969 1968

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Paraguay to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Paraguay to the United Nations, 801 Second Avenue, 13th Floor, Suite 1301, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Independence Day, 15 May
Accredited diplomats
9

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1982
Adult literacy rate 94.86 2024
CO2 emissions per capita 1.15819 2024
GDP 4.92782e+10 2025
GNI per capita 6,750 2025
Life expectancy at birth 73.982 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 0.933106 2024
Net official development assistance received 2.23693e+08 2023
Population 7.01308e+06 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 4,621 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 162 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

71 statements to the General Debate since 1951, 187,333 words in all. The longest was 1983, at 9,122 words, delivered by GONZALEZ ALSINA.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×24, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×6, UN Representative ×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 Paraguay
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Paraguay.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Paraguay
Location. PRY orthographic.svg by Addicted04 (Public domain) — 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 - 12 Oct 1945
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 2 Oct 1953 a
Optional Protocol to the Convention on Special Missions concerning the compulsory settlement of disputes - 19 Sep 1975 a
Vienna Convention on the Representation of States in their Relations with International Organizations of a Universal Character - 23 Sep 2008 a
United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property 16 Sep 2005 -
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 13 Jan 2006 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 23 Dec 1969 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning Acquisition of Nationality - 23 Dec 1969 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 23 Dec 1969 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 23 Dec 1969 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality - 23 Dec 1969 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 23 Dec 1969 a
Convention on special missions - 19 Sep 1975 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 11 Dec 1948 3 Oct 2001
Convention on the Rights of the Child 4 Apr 1990 25 Sep 1990
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty - 18 Aug 2003 a
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families 13 Sep 2000 23 Sep 2008
Agreement establishing the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean 24 Jul 1992 1 Dec 1994
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 3 Sep 2008
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 6 Feb 2007 3 Aug 2010
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 13 Sep 2000 18 Aug 2003
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 10 Jun 1992 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 10 Jun 1992 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 10 Jan 1995 a
Convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity - 23 Sep 2008 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 2 Dec 2005 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 6 Apr 1987 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 23 Oct 1989 12 Mar 1990
Constitution of the World Health Organization 22 Jul 1946 4 Jan 1949 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique 22 Jul 1946 -
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 16 Jun 2003 26 Sep 2006
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 6 Jun 2012 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 1 Apr 1970 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 14 Dec 1946 -
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 15 Aug 2001 A
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium - 15 Aug 2001 a
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 30 Mar 1961 3 Feb 1972
Convention on psychotropic substances 28 Jul 1971 3 Feb 1972
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 18 Oct 1972 20 Jun 1973
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 20 Dec 1988 23 Aug 1990
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 13 Jan 2006 a
United Nations Convention on the Liability of Operators of Transport Terminals in International Trade - 19 Jul 2005 a
United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts 26 Mar 2007 24 Jul 2018
Multilateral Agreement for the Establishment of an International Think Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries 22 Sep 2011 29 Dec 2016
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States 23 Dec 1965 -
Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods - 18 Aug 2003 P
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 23 Mar 1979 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 7 Oct 1980 2 Dec 1981
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 - 19 Jul 2005 a
International Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages, 1993 24 May 1994 -
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 15 Mar 1993 A
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations 30 Jun 1962 26 Nov 1969
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms - 30 Oct 1978 a
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 - [19 Sep 2005 a] (withdrawn)
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 28 Sep 2010 -
Convention on the Political Rights of Women 16 Nov 1953 22 Feb 1990
Convention on the International Right of Correction 16 Nov 1953 -
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 - 27 Sep 2007 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 7 Oct 1998 14 May 2001
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 12 Oct 2001 30 Nov 2004
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 12 Dec 2000 22 Sep 2004
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 11 Feb 2004 19 Jul 2005
United Nations Convention against Corruption 9 Dec 2003 1 Jun 2005
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 22 Sep 2004 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents 25 Oct 1974 24 Nov 1975
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 30 Dec 2008 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 22 Sep 2004 a
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 10 Sep 2025 -
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 8 Oct 1997 a
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 12 Mar 2025
Vienna Convention on succession of States in respect of treaties 31 Aug 1979 -
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) - 22 Sep 2004 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 14 Jan 1993 1 Dec 1994
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 25 Sep 1996 4 Oct 2001
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 3 Dec 1997 13 Nov 1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 12 Mar 2015
Arms Trade Treaty 19 Jun 2013 9 Apr 2015
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 20 Sep 2017 23 Jan 2020
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 1 Dec 1994 15 Jan 1997
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses 25 Aug 1998 -
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 11 Sep 1998 18 Aug 2003
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 12 Oct 2001 1 Apr 2004
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Feb 2014 26 Jun 2018
Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean 28 Sep 2018 -
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 3 Dec 1992 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 28 Sep 1995 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 12 Jun 1992 24 Feb 1994

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - abstain
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
iso2PY wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900616+00:00
iso2PY wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.270247+00:00
iso3PRY wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900626+00:00
iso3PRY wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.270251+00:00
m49600 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132369+00:00
m49600 un_sdg 1.02026-08-27T23:21:46.429629+00:00
nameParaguay wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900594+00:00
nameParaguay wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.270239+00:00
un_admission_date1945-10-24 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.900606+00:00
un_admission_date1945-10-24 wikidata 1.02026-08-27T23:21:27.270243+00:00
unsd_nameParaguay un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132379+00:00
unsd_nameParaguay un_sdg 1.02026-08-27T23:21:46.429636+00:00

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