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Member state

Republic of the Congo at the United Nations

Flag of Republic of the Congo
Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg by See File history below for details (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1960-09-20
ISO 3166-1
CG / COG
Admitted by
A/RES/1486 (XV)
Formerly
People's Republic of the Congo, until 15 November 1971

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 1960-09-20

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

2022 2021 2020 2016 2015 2014 2010 2009 2008 2005 2004 2003 1997 1996 1995 1985 1984 1983 1976 1975 1974 1970 1969 1968

Human Rights Council

2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

Security Council

2007 2006 1987 1986

Permanent representatives

1 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Basile Ikouébé 19982007

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Republic of the Congo to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Congo to the United Nations, 600 Third Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10016
National holiday
National Day, 15 August
Accredited diplomats
10

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1984
Adult literacy rate 76.11 2005
CO2 emissions per capita 1.33536 2024
GDP 1.63066e+10 2025
GNI per capita 2,280 2025
Life expectancy at birth 66.001 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.18596 2024
Net official development assistance received 3.775e+08 2023
Population 6.48444e+06 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 62,500 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 13,134 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

66 statements to the General Debate since 1960, 178,001 words in all. The longest was 1972, at 5,868 words, delivered by Mr. Lopes.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×17, President ×8, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×3, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and of Congolese Living Abroad ×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 Republic of the Congo
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of the Republic of the Congo.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Republic of the Congo
Location. LocationRepublicoftheCongo.svg by Mandavi (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

69 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 - 15 Oct 1962 d
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 11 Mar 1963 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 24 Apr 1963 -
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality 24 Apr 1963 -
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 24 Apr 1963 -
Convention on the Rights of the Child - 14 Oct 1993 a
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families 29 Sep 2008 31 Mar 2017
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 2 Sep 2014
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 6 Feb 2007 -
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 11 Jul 1988 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 5 Oct 1983 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 5 Oct 1983 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 5 Oct 1983 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 5 Oct 1983 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 29 Jul 1980 26 Jul 1982
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 30 Jul 2003 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 26 Oct 1960 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 23 Mar 2004 6 Feb 2007
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness - 10 Oct 2023 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 10 Jul 1970 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 - 15 Oct 1962 d
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium - 15 Oct 1962 d
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 30 Mar 1961 3 Mar 2004
Convention on psychotropic substances - 3 Mar 2004 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 3 Mar 2004 a
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 11 Jun 2014 a
United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts - 28 Jan 2014 a
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank 29 Nov 1963 10 Feb 1965
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States - 11 Jun 2014 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 30 Jun 1977 27 Jul 1978
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 18 Dec 1979 16 May 1983
International Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages, 1993 - 11 Jun 2014 a
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea 23 Sep 2009 28 Jan 2014
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 5 Sep 1975 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 26 Jul 1982 a
International Convention on Arrest of Ships, 1999 - 11 Jun 2014 a
Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural Character - 26 Aug 1968 a
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 26 Aug 1968 A
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 29 Jun 1962 a
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 13 Sep 1983 -
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 - 26 Apr 2007 a
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 31 Jul 2008 2 Dec 2010 A
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 15 Oct 1962 d
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 17 Jul 1998 3 May 2004
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 14 Nov 2001 20 Apr 2007
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 14 Dec 2000 -
United Nations Convention against Corruption - 13 Jul 2006 a
International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries 20 Jun 1990 -
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 19 Dec 2018 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 20 Sep 2023 5 Aug 2025
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas - 5 Dec 2012 a
United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration 30 Sep 2015 -
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 -
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations 18 Jun 1998 -
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 15 Jan 1993 4 Dec 2007
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 11 Feb 1997 2 Sep 2014
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction - 4 May 2001 a
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 2 Sep 2014
Central African Convention for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, their Ammunition and all Parts and Components that can be used for their Manufacture, Repair and Assembly 19 Nov 2010 5 Dec 2012
Arms Trade Treaty 25 Sep 2013 -
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 20 Sep 2017 17 May 2022
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 15 Oct 1994 12 Jul 1999
Lusaka Agreement on Co-operative Enforcement Operations Directed at Illegal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora - 14 May 1997 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 11 Sep 1998 13 Jul 2006
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 4 Dec 2001 12 Feb 2007
Minamata Convention on Mercury 8 Oct 2014 6 Aug 2019
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 16 Nov 1994 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 20 Apr 2007 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 11 Jun 1992 1 Aug 1996

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - non-voting
A/RES/80/286 - non-voting
A/RES/80/296 - non-voting
A/RES/80/293 B - non-voting
A/RES/80/294 - non-voting
A/RES/80/293 A - non-voting
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
iso2CG wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.899285+00:00
iso3COG wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.899294+00:00
m49178 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.131685+00:00
nameRepublic of the Congo wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.899263+00:00
un_admission_date1960-09-20 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.899275+00:00
unsd_nameCongo un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.131697+00:00

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