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Sri Lanka at the United Nations

Flag of Sri Lanka
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg by {{author|original| }} (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1955-12-14
ISO 3166-1
LK / LKA
Admitted by
A/RES/995 (X)
Formerly
Ceylon, until 29 August 1972

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 1955-12-14

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 2008 2007 2006 1999 1998 1997 1995 1994 1993 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1972 1971 1970

Human Rights Council

2007 2006

Security Council

1961 1960

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, 820 Second Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Independence Day, 4 February
Accredited diplomats
6

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1981
Adult literacy rate 92.74 2024
CO2 emissions per capita 1.06473 2024
GDP 1.08825e+11 2025
GNI per capita 4,670 2025
Life expectancy at birth 77.672 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.42539 2024
Net official development assistance received 8.2726e+08 2023
Population 2.1756e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 213 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 148,369 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

69 statements to the General Debate since 1956, 243,560 words in all. The longest was 1961, at 10,062 words, delivered by Mr. Bandaranaike.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×18, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×8, Prime Minister ×3, Permanent Representative ×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 Sri Lanka
Coat of arms. Emblem of Sri Lanka.svg by Tonyjeff, based on national symbol (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

85 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 - 19 Jun 2003 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 18 Apr 1961 2 Jun 1978
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning Acquisition of Nationality - 31 Jul 1978 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 31 Jul 1978 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 4 May 2006 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 12 Oct 1950 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child 26 Jan 1990 12 Jul 1991
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families - 11 Mar 1996 a
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 8 Feb 2016
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 10 Dec 2015 25 May 2016
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 18 Feb 1982 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 11 Jun 1980 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 11 Jun 1980 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 3 Oct 1997 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 18 Feb 1982 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 Jul 1980 5 Oct 1981
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 3 Jan 1994 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 7 Jul 1948 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique - 23 May 1949 A
Agreement on the establishment of the International Vaccine Institute 30 Apr 1997 24 Feb 2000
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 23 Sep 2003 11 Nov 2003
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 - 17 Jan 1949 A
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium - 4 Dec 1957 a
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 11 Jul 1963 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 15 Mar 1993 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 29 Jun 1981 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 6 Jun 1991 a
Protocol amending the International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, signed at Paris on 18 May 1904, and the International Convention for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, signed at Paris on 4 May 1910 - 14 Jul 1949 s
Protocol amending the Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications, signed at Paris, on 4 May 1910 - 14 Jul 1949 s
Charter of the Asian and Pacific Development Centre 9 Sep 1982 -
Agreement to establish the South Centre 30 Sep 1994 16 Mar 1995
United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts 6 Jul 2006 7 Jul 2015
Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank 4 Dec 1965 29 Sep 1966
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 15 Feb 1977 23 Mar 1977
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 31 Oct 1979 25 Sep 1981
Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring 4 Jun 1954 28 Nov 1955
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles 4 Jun 1954 28 Nov 1955
Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network 26 Apr 2004 24 Sep 2004
Intergovernmental Agreement on the Trans-Asian Railway Network (with annexes) 10 Nov 2006 16 Feb 2010
Intergovernmental Agreement on Dry Ports 16 May 2014 -
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 6 Apr 1972 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 30 Jun 1975 s
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 8 Jan 1952 A
International Agreement for the Establishment of the University for Peace - 10 Aug 1981 s
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 12 Nov 1991 1 Oct 1993
Agreement establishing the International Tea Promotion Association [22 Sep 1977 ] [ 1 Nov 1977 ] (withdrawn)
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 - 6 Aug 2013 a
Agreement establishing the Asian Coconut Community 11 Mar 1969 25 Apr 1969
Agreement establishing the International Pepper Community - 27 Jul 2002 a
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages 12 Dec 1962 -
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 10 Jan 2000 8 Sep 2000
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 13 Dec 2000 22 Sep 2006
United Nations Convention against Corruption 15 Mar 2004 31 Mar 2004
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 -
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 8 Sep 2000 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 27 Feb 1991 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 23 Sep 2003 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings 12 Jan 1998 23 Mar 1999
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone 30 Oct 1958 -
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 Feb 2025 16 Sep 2025
Convention on the High Seas 30 Oct 1958 -
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas 30 Oct 1958 -
Convention on the Continental Shelf 30 Oct 1958 -
Optional Protocol of Signature concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 30 Oct 1958 s
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 9 Oct 1996 24 Oct 1996
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea 30 Jun 1999 -
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 30 Dec 1958 9 Apr 1962
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 28 Feb 2024
Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity - 3 Oct 1979 a
Agreement establishing the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development 15 Sep 1978 7 Nov 1988
Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations 5 Aug 1999 13 Oct 1999
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques 8 Jun 1977 25 Apr 1978
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) - 24 Sep 2004 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 14 Jan 1993 19 Aug 1994
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Oct 1996 25 Jul 2023
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction - 13 Dec 2017 a
Convention on Cluster Munitions - 1 Mar 2018 a
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - 19 Sep 2023 a
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 9 Dec 1998 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 19 Jan 2006 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 5 Sep 2001 22 Dec 2005
Minamata Convention on Mercury 8 Oct 2014 19 Jun 2017
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 15 Dec 1989 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 28 Aug 1992 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 10 Jun 1992 23 Mar 1994

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
iso2LK wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901238+00:00
iso3LKA wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901248+00:00
m49144 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132917+00:00
nameSri Lanka wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901219+00:00
un_admission_date1955-12-14 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901228+00:00
unsd_nameSri Lanka un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.132931+00:00

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