A permanent representative is a diplomat who is the head of a country's diplomatic mission to an international organisation.
Brazil is a full member of the United Nations. It has participated in peacekeeping operations with the UN in the Middle East, the former Belgian Congo, Cyprus, Mozambique, Angola, and more recently East Timor and Haiti. Brazil has been regularly elected as a non-permanent member to the Security Council since its first session in 1946 and is now among the most elected UN member states to the UNSC. Brazil was elected to become a member of the 15-country UN Security Council for the two-year term of 2022–23.
The Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations is Syria's foremost diplomatic representative at the United Nations and the head of the Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic in New York City.
Ruchira Kamboj is a retired Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1987 batch, who last served as India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from August 2022 to May 2024 until her retirement. She has previously served as High Commissioner of India to South Africa, first female Indian Ambassador to Bhutan and Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO, Paris.
Rakesh Sood is a former Indian diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service cadre, columnist, and writer. He was appointed as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special envoy for disarmament and non-proliferation in September, 2013. He did his secondary schooling at Ramjas Higher Secondary School -5, New Delhi. He studied physics at St. Stephen's College, Delhi and went on to join the Indian Foreign Service in July 1976.
Hardeep Singh Puri is an Indian politician and former diplomat who is serving as 33rd Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas since 2021.
A permanent representative to the United Nations is the head of a country's diplomatic mission to the United Nations.
The United States Mission to the United Nations (USUN) serves as the United States delegation to the United Nations. USUN is responsible for carrying out the nation's participation in the world body. In 1947, the United States Mission was created by an act of Congress to assist the President and the Department of State in conducting United States policy at the United Nations. Since that time, USUN has served a vital role as the Department of State's UN branch. Today, USUN has approximately 150 people on staff who serve to represent the United States’ political, economic social, legal, military, public diplomacy, and management interests at the United Nations.
The ambassador and permanent representative of the Philippines to the United Nations is the head of the diplomatic mission of the government of the Philippines to the United Nations.
The permanent representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations is the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's foremost diplomatic representative to the United Nations. The permanent Representative is the head of a diplomatic mission to the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City. The permanent representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations has headed the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations since Afghanistan became a UN Member State on 19 November 1946.
T. S. Tirumurti is a retired Indian civil servant (Ambassador) of the Indian Foreign Service cadre. His diplomatic career spanned 37 years (1985-2022). He served as the Secretary to Government of India and later as Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York when India became a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 8th time. He was also the President of the UN Security Council for August 2021.
The Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations is the formal title of the Indian delegation to the United Nations (UN). India was among the founding members of the United Nations and signed the Declaration by United Nations on 1 January 1942. India also participated in the United Nations Conference on International Organization and Diwan Bahadur Sir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar signed the United Nations Charter on India's behalf.
Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations is the diplomatic mission of Bangladesh to the United Nation in New York City. It is under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Natarajan Krishnan was an Indian diplomat and negotiator who served in many capacities including as Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York from 1981 to 86 and the President of the United Nations Security Council in 1985. He also set up the 1987 Africa Fund as Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Special Envoy and was India's representative on UNESCO's Executive Board.
The Ambassador Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations is an official of the Government of Spain belonging to the diplomatic corps representing Spain before the United Nations (UN) based in New York City, United States. This permanent representation, unlike the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union, does not have its own legislation and is regulated by the general regulations governing diplomatic missions, by international law and by the internal law of the UN.
Harish Parvathaneni is an Indian diplomat who is serving as Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations since 1 September 2024. A 1990 batch of Indian Foreign Service, he served as ambassador to Germany from 2021 until 2024 and to Vietnam from 2016 till 2019.
