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Seychelles at the United Nations

Flag of Seychelles
Flag of Seychelles.svg by User:Vxb83 (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1976-09-21
ISO 3166-1
SC / SYC
Admitted by
A/RES/31/1

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 1976-09-21

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Seychelles to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Seychelles to the United Nations, 685 Third Avenue, Suite 1107, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Independence Day, 29 June
Accredited diplomats
3

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1987
Adult literacy rate 93.95 2010
CO2 emissions per capita 7.23668 2024
GDP 2.38702e+09 2025
GNI per capita 19,200 2025
Life expectancy at birth 76.2951 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.17907 2024
Net official development assistance received 1.62013e+07 2017
Population 122,730 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 10 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

36 statements to the General Debate since 1977, 65,184 words in all. The longest was 1981, at 4,875 words, delivered by Mr. HODOUL.

Of the 25 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×10, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×7, UN Representative ×4, Vice-President ×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.

2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2004 2003 2001 1998 1997 1996 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1983 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977

Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Seychelles
Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Seychelles.svg by Sodacan (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of Seychelles
Location. SYC orthographic.svg by Addicted04 (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

59 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 - 26 Aug 1980 a
Optional Protocol to the Convention on Special Missions concerning the compulsory settlement of disputes - 28 Dec 1977 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 24 Jul 1985 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 29 May 1979 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 29 May 1979 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 29 May 1979 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 29 May 1979 a
Convention on special missions - 28 Dec 1977 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 5 May 1992 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child - 7 Sep 1990 a
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty - 15 Dec 1994 a
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families - 15 Dec 1994 a
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 2 Oct 2009
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance - 18 Jan 2017 a
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 7 Mar 1978 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 5 May 1992 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 5 May 1992 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 5 May 1992 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 13 Feb 1978 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 5 May 1992 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 5 May 1992 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 11 Sep 1979 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 11 Sep 2003 12 Nov 2003
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 23 Apr 1980 a
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 27 Feb 1992 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 27 Feb 1992 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 27 Feb 1992 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 27 Feb 1992 a
Agreement to establish the South Centre - 30 Sep 1994 s
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank - 20 Apr 1977 a
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 13 Dec 1978 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 21 Apr 1982 21 Apr 1982
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 13 Jun 1978 A
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 28 Dec 2000 10 Aug 2010
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 15 Nov 2001 30 Mar 2004
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 12 Dec 2000 22 Apr 2003
United Nations Convention against Corruption 27 Feb 2004 16 Mar 2006
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 12 Nov 2003 a
International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries - 12 Mar 1990 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 29 May 1980 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 22 Aug 2003 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 13 Apr 2024
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 4 Dec 1996 20 Mar 1998
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 3 Feb 2020 a
Vienna Convention on succession of States in respect of treaties - 22 Feb 1980 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) - 8 Jun 2000 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 15 Jan 1993 7 Apr 1993
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 13 Apr 2004
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 4 Dec 1997 2 Jun 2000
Convention on Cluster Munitions 13 Apr 2010 20 May 2010
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Jun 2013 2 Nov 2015
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 26 Sep 2018 9 Jul 2021
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 14 Oct 1994 26 Jun 1997
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 11 Sep 1998 -
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 25 Mar 2002 3 Jun 2008
Minamata Convention on Mercury 27 May 2014 13 Jan 2015
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 6 Jan 1993 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 11 May 1993 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 10 Jun 1992 22 Sep 1992

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - non-voting
A/RES/80/286 - yes
A/RES/80/296 - yes
A/RES/80/293 B - non-voting
A/RES/80/294 - yes
A/RES/80/293 A - non-voting
A/RES/80/297 - non-voting
A/RES/80/299 - non-voting

Provenance

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

AttributeValueSourceConfidenceFetched
iso2SC wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902696+00:00
iso3SYC wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902706+00:00
m49690 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.135293+00:00
nameSeychelles wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902677+00:00
un_admission_date1976-09-21 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.902686+00:00
unsd_nameSeychelles un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.135304+00:00

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