Member state

Qatar at the United Nations

Flag of Qatar.svg by See File history below for details (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Admitted: 1971-09-21
ISO 3166-1: QA / QAT
Admitted by: A/RES/2753 (XXVI)

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.

Organisation	Joined
United Nations	1971-09-21

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.

Permanent mission

Mission: Permanent Mission of Qatar to the United Nations
Address: Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations, 809 United Nations Plaza, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday: National Day, 18 December
Accredited diplomats: 11

Accredited diplomats

Ms. Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser Counsellor
Mr. Jassim Sayar A. J. Al-Maawda First Secretary / Deputy Permanent Representative
Ms. Sharifa Yousef A. S. Alnesf First Secretary
Mr. Abdulla Mohammed M. M. Al-wadaani First Secretary
Mr. Abdulaziz Mohammed Al-sulaiti Second Secretary
Ms. Sara Ibrahim M. A. Alahmad Second Secretary
Mr. Ali Ahmad M. A. Almansouri Second Secretary
Mr. Ali Abdulrazzaq A. A. Al-hashmi Second Secretary
Ms. Almaha Mubarak F. J. Al-thani Third Secretary
Mr. Abdulrahman Abdulaziz F. A. Al-thani Third Secretary

The numbers

Indicator	Latest	Year
Adult literacy rate	97.75	2014
CO2 emissions per capita	47.3322	2024
GDP	2.1556e+11	2025
GNI per capita	74,330	2025
Life expectancy at birth	82.522	2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)	6.50021	2022
Net official development assistance received	3.74e+06	1995
Population	2.97222e+06	2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)	195	2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate)	73	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

55 statements to the General Debate since 1971, 120,187 words in all. The longest was 1998, at 3,748 words, delivered by Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Head of State ×11, Amir ×8, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×6, Emir ×3. 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 Qatar — Coat of arms. Emblem of Qatar-2022.svg by 9BBWMJ (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Location of Qatar — Location. QAT orthographic.svg by Addicted04 (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

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

Treaty	Signed	Ratified or acceded
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations	-	26 Sep 2007 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies	-	10 Jan 2014 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations	-	6 Jun 1986 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations	-	4 Nov 1998 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports	3 Dec 1987	19 Jan 1988
Convention on the Rights of the Child	8 Dec 1992	3 Apr 1995
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities	9 Jul 2007	13 May 2008
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination	-	22 Jul 1976 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights	-	21 May 2018 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights	-	21 May 2018 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid	18 Mar 1975	19 Mar 1975
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women	-	29 Apr 2009 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment	-	11 Jan 2000 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization	-	11 May 1972 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control	17 Jun 2003	23 Jul 2004
Convention on psychotropic substances	-	18 Dec 1986 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances	-	4 May 1990 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development	-	13 Dec 1977 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization	-	9 Dec 1985 a
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention)	-	25 Jan 2018 a
Agreement on International Roads between Arab Countries	8 Apr 2002	28 Jun 2002
Memorandum of Understanding on Maritime Transport Cooperation between Arab Countries	9 May 2005	-
Convention on the International Maritime Organization	-	19 May 1977 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences	-	31 Oct 1994 a
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations	-	23 Jun 2017 a
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology	-	16 Jan 2008 a
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism	-	27 Jul 2008 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime	-	10 Mar 2008 a
United Nations Convention against Corruption	1 Dec 2005	30 Jan 2007
United Nations Convention against Cybercrime; Strengthening International Cooperation for Combating Certain Crimes Committed by Means of Information and Communications Technology Systems and for the Sharing of Evidence in Electronic Form of Serious Crimes	25 Oct 2025	4 Feb 2026
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages	-	11 Sep 2012 a
International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries	-	26 Mar 1999 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents	-	3 Mar 1997 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings	-	27 Jun 2008 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	-	14 Jan 2026 a
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea	-	27 Jul 2005 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards	-	30 Dec 2002 a
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation	7 Aug 2019	12 Mar 2020
Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite	-	12 Apr 2023 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)	-	16 Nov 2009 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction	1 Feb 1993	3 Sep 1997
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	24 Sep 1996	3 Mar 1997
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction	4 Dec 1997	13 Oct 1998
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa	-	15 Mar 1999 a
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses	-	28 Feb 2002 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade	-	10 Dec 2004 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants	-	10 Dec 2004 a
Minamata Convention on Mercury	-	4 Nov 2020 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer	-	22 Jan 1996 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal	-	9 Aug 1995 a
Convention on Biological Diversity	11 Jun 1992	21 Aug 1996

Recorded votes

Resolution	Date	Vote
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.

Attribute	Value	Source	Confidence	Fetched
iso2	QA	wikidata	1.0	2026-08-26T06:55:17.901156+00:00
iso3	QAT	wikidata	1.0	2026-08-26T06:55:17.901166+00:00
m49	634	un_sdg	1.0	2026-08-26T06:55:41.132832+00:00
name	Qatar	wikidata	1.0	2026-08-26T06:55:17.901131+00:00
un_admission_date	1971-09-21	wikidata	1.0	2026-08-26T06:55:17.901143+00:00
unsd_name	Qatar	un_sdg	1.0	2026-08-26T06:55:41.132845+00:00

Where this page comes from

UN General Debate Corpus (Jankin, Baturo & Dasandi) — CC0 1.0 · source
UN Statistics Division SDG Indicators API — CC BY 4.0 · source
Wikidata — CC0 1.0 · source
World Bank Open Data — CC BY 4.0 · source