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Saudi Arabia at the United Nations

Flag of Saudi Arabia
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consultative_Assembly_of_Saudi_Arabia The Shura Council] (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1945-10-24
ISO 3166-1
SA / SAU
Charter signed
1945-06-26
Charter ratified
1945-11-18

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

2027 pending 2026 2025 2021 2020 2019 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2001 2000 1999 1990 1989 1988 1985 1984 1983

Human Rights Council

2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006

Permanent representatives

2 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Abdul Aziz bin Mohammed Al-Wasil 2022-08in office / not recorded
Abdul Aziz bin Mohammed Al-Wasil 2016-112022-08

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations, 809 United Nations Plaza, 10th/11th Floors, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
23 September
Accredited diplomats
28

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1992
Adult literacy rate 97.93 2024
CO2 emissions per capita 18.4846 2024
GDP 1.27694e+12 2025
GNI per capita 36,070 2025
Life expectancy at birth 78.982 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 7.2981 2024
Net official development assistance received -1.3107e+08 2007
Population 3.69736e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 448 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 2,368 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

59 statements to the General Debate since 1946, 186,710 words in all. The longest was 1960, at 10,779 words, delivered by Mr. SHUKAIRY.

Of the 22 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×14, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×3, UN Representative ×2, King ×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 Saudi Arabia
Coat of arms. Emblem of Saudi Arabia.svg by Anus kafm (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Saudi Arabia
Location. Saudi Arabia (orthographic projection).svg by Gringer/perlshaper (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

64 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 - 18 Oct 1945
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 3 Sep 2015 a
United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property - 1 Sep 2010 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 10 Feb 1981 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 29 Jun 1988 a
Convention on special missions - 10 May 2022 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 13 Jul 1950 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child - 26 Jan 1996 a
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - 24 Jun 2008 a
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 23 Sep 1997 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 7 Sep 2000 7 Sep 2000
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 23 Sep 1997 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization 22 Jul 1946 26 May 1947 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique - 22 Jul 1946 s
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 24 Jun 2004 9 May 2005
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 - 11 Dec 1946 s
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 s
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 21 Apr 1973 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 29 Jan 1975 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 9 Jan 1992 a
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 3 Aug 2023 a
United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts 12 Nov 2007 -
United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships 5 Sep 2023 -
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 5 Jul 1977 15 Jul 1977
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - 21 Jun 1985 a
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Commercial Road Vehicles - 23 Jan 2003 a
Customs Convention on Containers, 1972 - 23 Dec 2008 a
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 17 May 2018 a
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles - 23 Jan 2003 a
Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be used for such Carriage (ATP) 1 - 13 Jan 2015 a
Agreement on International Roads between Arab Countries 7 Mar 2002 26 Jul 2004
Agreement on International Railways between Arab Countries - 12 Jul 2006 a
Memorandum of Understanding on Maritime Transport Cooperation between Arab Countries 9 May 2005 6 Jun 2006
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 25 Feb 1969 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 24 May 1985 a
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms - 4 Apr 2023 a
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology - 2 Jan 2006 a
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 - 17 Oct 2022 a
International Agreement on Olive Oil and Table Olives, 2015 - 17 Mar 2023 a
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 29 Nov 2001 23 Aug 2007
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 12 Dec 2000 18 Jan 2005
United Nations Convention against Corruption 9 Jan 2004 29 Apr 2013
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 26 Oct 2025 -
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 8 Jan 1991 a
International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries - 14 Apr 1997 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 1 Mar 2004 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 22 Mar 2010 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 31 Oct 2007 a
Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks - 22 Jun 2023 a
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea - 30 Nov 2001 a
Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Seabed Authority 11 Oct 1999 -
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 19 Apr 1994 a
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 5 May 2020
Agreement governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies - [18 Jul 2012 a] (withdrawn)
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations - 3 Jun 2025 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) - 7 Dec 2007 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 20 Jan 1993 9 Aug 1996
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 25 Jun 1997 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 7 Sep 2000 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 14 Mar 2002 25 Jul 2012
Minamata Convention on Mercury - 27 Feb 2019 a
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 1 Mar 1993 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 22 Mar 1989 7 Mar 1990
Convention on Biological Diversity - 3 Oct 2001 a

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
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.

AttributeValueSourceConfidenceFetched
iso2SA wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901199+00:00
iso3SAU wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901208+00:00
m49682 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132875+00:00
nameSaudi Arabia wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901175+00:00
un_admission_date1945-10-24 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901186+00:00
unsd_nameSaudi Arabia un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132889+00:00

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