Member state

Tonga at the United Nations

Admitted

1999-09-14

ISO 3166-1

TO / TON

Admitted by

A/RES/54/3

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.

Permanent mission

Mission

Permanent Mission of Tonga to the United Nations

Address

Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Tonga to the United Nations, 250 East 51st Street, New York, NY 10022

National holiday

4 November

Accredited diplomats

3

Accredited diplomats

• Mr. Viliami Va'inga Tōnē Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
• Ms. Jeanett Vea First Secretary / Deputy Permanent Representative
• Ms. Darlene Atuamua Hakeifalehaakili Vaea Second Secretary

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

25 statements to the General Debate since 2001, 43,029 words in all. The longest was 2023, at 2,932 words, delivered by Siaosi ’Ofakivahafolau Sovaleni.

Of the 25 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Prime Minister ×12, King ×3, Head of State ×2, UN Representative ×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

49 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

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