Uganda has formal diplomatic relations with many countries,some accredited. Since the colonial era and after independence Uganda has grown to be one of the most important African countries. Uganda has diplomatic relations with many countries throughout Africa,the Americas,Asia,Europe and Oceania. Uganda is a member of the United Nations and the Commonwealth of Nations since 1962.
Han Seung-soo is a South Korean politician and diplomat. He served as Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea from 29 February 2008 to 28 September 2009. He was the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Envoy on Climate Change (2007–08) and for Disaster Risk Reduction and Water (2013–18),Special Advisor to the UN/World Bank High-Level Panel on Water (2016–18),Member of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation Agency,Member of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel for Global Sustainability,Founding Chair of Global Green Growth Institute,Temasek International Panel Member (2004–18) and Independent Non-Executive Director of Standard Chartered plc (2010–2019).
Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general,Ban was the South Korean minister of foreign affairs and trade between 2004 and 2006. Ban was initially considered to be a long shot for the office of Secretary-General of the United Nations;he began to campaign for the office in February 2006. As the foreign minister of South Korea,he was able to travel to all the countries on the United Nations Security Council,a manoeuvre that subsequently turned him into the campaign's front-runner.
Cho Tae-yong is a South Korean career diplomat with over three decades of experience who served as South Korea's National Security Advisor from March to December 2023. On January 16,2024,he was appointed Director of the National Intelligence Service of South Korea.
Wu Dawei was the previous special representative for Korean Peninsula Affairs and former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.
Kang Young-Hoon was a South Korean politician who served as the second prime minister of the sixth South Korean republic,from 16 December 1988 until 27 December 1990.
Choi Young-jin is a South Korean career diplomat who served as South Korean Ambassador to the United States from 2012 to 2013,when he was succeeded by Ahn Ho-young.
Bernard Tilakaratna,SLOS (1927–2004) was a senior diplomat and bureaucrat of the Sri Lankan government. He was an ambassador to many countries and prior to retirement was the permanent secretary to Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko is a Russian diplomat. He served as the Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom between January 2011 and August 2019. Since August 2019,he has been rector of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia. While working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow,he was in charge of multilateral diplomacy. A graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1976,he later gained a Doctor of Law degree. Yakovenko holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,and speaks Russian,English and French.
Fredrick F. Chien,or Fred Chien,Chien Foo,is a retired Taiwanese diplomat and politician who served as the President of the Republic of China Control Yuan from 1999 to 2005. After graduating from Yale University,he assumed a series of governmental positions include Director-General of the Government Information Office from 1972 to 1975,Republic of China Representative to the United States from 1982 to 1988,Chairman of the Council for Economic Planning and Development from 1988 to 1990,and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1990 to 1996. He was also the Speaker of the National Assembly between 1996 and 1999.
Agshin Shafaat oglu Mehdiyev is an Azerbaijani diplomat who has served as Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan since May 2014. Agshin Mehdiyev speaks Azerbaijani,Arabic,English,Russian and Turkish.
Sameh Hassan Shoukry(Arabic:سامحشكري;born 20 October 1952) is an Egyptian diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2024. Previously,Shoukry served as the Ambassador of Egypt to the United States from 2008 to 2012.
The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Washington,D.C. is the diplomatic mission of South Korea to the United States. Its main chancery is located at 2450 Massachusetts Avenue,Northwest,Washington,D.C.,in the Embassy Row neighborhood. The current ambassador is Cho Hyun-dong.
Ivan Mrkić is a Serbian diplomat and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Othman Jerandi is a Tunisian politician and diplomat who served as the Tunisian minister of foreign affairs from September 2020 to February 2023. He previously held the role from March 2013 to January 2014.
The 2023 United Nations Security Council election was held on 6 June 2023 during the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly,held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The elections were for five non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 2024. In accordance with the Security Council's rotation rules,whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes,the five available seats were allocated as follows:
Ri Yong-ho is a North Korean politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Korea from 2016 to 2020.
Raveesh Kumar is an Indian diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service of 1995 batch. Currently,he is an Indian ambassador to the Czech Republic. Previously,he served as Indian ambassador to Finland also accredited to Estonia,residing in Helsinki. He was the former official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in the Government of India. He was the youngest ever official spokesperson. He was the Consul General of India in Frankfurt,Germany before being appointed as the spokesperson of the MEA.
Clement Philip Ricardo Allicock is a Jamaican career diplomat who served as Jamaican envoy to Japan,Australia,India,Indonesia,Korea,Malaysia,New Zealand and the Philippines.
Wayne McCook is a Jamaican lawyer and career diplomat who was Jamaican first resident ambassador to China and served as Jamaica's permanent representative to the United Nations offices in Geneva,Switzerland and Rome,Italy. After four decades of diplomatic career,McCook retired from public service to a private career where he served as senior adviser to the Director General of World Trade Organization (WTO). He is married to Jennifer Liu,and has two children,Alexa and Adam McCook
