Member state

Syria at the United Nations

Admitted

1945-10-24

ISO 3166-1

SY / SYR

Charter signed

1945-06-26

Charter ratified

1945-11-19

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.

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

2001 2000 1999 1993 1992 1991 1988 1987 1986 1980 1979 1978 1977

Security Council

2003 2002 1971 1970 1948 1947

Permanent representatives

18 recorded. Full list

Permanent mission

Mission

Permanent Mission of Syria to the United Nations

Address

Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations, 820 Second Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10017

National holiday

Independence Day, 17 April

Accredited diplomats

15

Accredited diplomats

• Mr. Bassam Sabbagh Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
• Mr. Koussay Aldahhak Minister Counsellor
• Mr. Alhakam Dandy Counsellor
• Mr. Essam Alshahin Counsellor
• Mr. Wissam Ajeeb Counsellor
• Mr. Mhd. Riyad Khaddour Counsellor
• Mr. Wael Al Khalil First Secretary
• Mr. Adib Al Ashkar Second Secretary
• Ms. Nour Ali Third Secretary
• Ms. Aliaa Ali Third Secretary
• Mr. Mhd. Majd Nayyal Attaché
• Ms. Marah Mustafa Attaché
• Mr. Elie Altarsha Attaché
• Mr. Mhd. Ayman Salman Attaché / Administrative and Financial Attaché
• Mr. Wissam Al Nahhas Attaché

The numbers

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

75 statements to the General Debate since 1946, 244,762 words in all. The longest was 1965, at 8,316 words, delivered by Mr. TOMEH.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×19, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates ×5, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×3, Deputy Prime Minister ×2. 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

Treaties joined

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

Recorded votes

Provenance

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