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Diplomatic Corps Order of Precedence

In accordance with relevant Articles of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, heads of diplomatic missions appear on the Diplomatic Corps Order of Precedence list in their respective classes and in the order of the date and time of assuming their duties.

ORDER OF PRECEDENCE
Reported to the Office of the Chief of Protocol as of June 30, 2023

AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY
For Bilateral Missions and Heads of Delegation (European Union and African Union)

Country Bilateral Chief of Mission WH Date
PALAU Hersey Kyota
(Dean of the Diplomatic Corps and EAP Region)
11/12/97
TURKMENISTAN Meret Orazov
(Dean for the SCA Region)
02/14/01
REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Serge Mombouli
(Dean for the AF Region)
07/31/01
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Yousif Mana Saeed Ahmed AlOtaiba
(Dean for the NEA Region)
07/28/08
NICARAGUA Francisco Obadiah Campbell Hooker
(Dean for the WHA Region)
06/28/10
RWANDA Mathilde Mukantabana
(Female Dean)
07/18/13
MONACO Maguy MACCARIO DOYLE
(Dean for the EUR Region)
12/03/13
EQUATORIAL GUINEA Miguel Ntutumu Evuna Andeme 02/23/15
ALBANIA Floreta Faber 05/18/15
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Ronald Sanders 09/17/15
DJIBOUTI Mohamed Siad Douale 01/28/16
BRUNEI Serbini Ali 01/28/16
ANDORRA Elisenda VIVES BALMANA 03/02/16
CAMEROON Essomba Etoundi 06/27/16
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Anthony Wayne Jerome Phillips Spencer 06/27/16
HOLY SEE Christophe Pierre 06/27/16
JORDAN Dina Khalil Tawfiq Kawar 06/27/16
MARSHALL ISLANDS Gerald M. Zackios 09/16/16
JAMAICA Audrey Patrice Marks 01/18/17
SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES Lou-anne Gaylene Gilchrist 01/18/17
QATAR Meshal Hamad M.J. Al Thani 04/24/17
TOGO Frédéric Edem Hegbe 04/24/17
MOROCCO Lalla Joumala Alaoui 04/24/17
SAN MARINO Damiano Beleffi 07/21/17
BAHRAIN Abdulla Rashed Abdulla AlKhalifa 07/21/17
Vanuatu Odo Tevi 09/08/17
Sweden Karin Ulrika Olofsdotter 09/08/17
Croatia Pjer Šimunović 09/08/17
Russia Anatoly Ivanovich Antonov 09/08/17
PHILIPPINES Jose Manuel Del Gallego Romualdez 11/29/17
KIRIBATI Teburoro Tito 01/24/18
GERMANY Emily Margarethe HABER 06/22/18
CYPRUS Marios LYSIOTIS 09/17/18
south sudan Philip Jada NATANA 09/17/18
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Martial NDOUBOU 09/17/18
SPAIN Santiago CABANAS Ansorena 09/17/18
BARBADOS Noel Anderson LYNCH 01/11/19
GRENADA Yolande Yvonne SMITH 04/08/19
SIERRA LEONE Sidique Abou Bakarr WAI 04/08/19
EUROPEAN UNION Stavros LAMBRINIDIS 04/08/19
SAUDI ARABIA Reema Bint Bandar Bin Sultan AL SAUD 07/08/19
ICELAND Bergdis ELLERTSDÓTTIR 09/16/19
NETHERLANDS Andre HASPELS 09/16/19
LATVIA Māris SELGA 09/16/19
SWITZERLAND Jacques Henri PITTELOUD 09/16/19
SOMALIA Ali Sharif AHMED 09/16/19
SENEGAL Mansour KANE 01/06/20
ARGENTINA Jorge Martin Arturo ARGÜELLO 02/06/20
INDIA Taranjit Singh SANDHU 02/06/20
ECUADOR Ivonne Leila JUEZ DE A-BAKI 02/06/20
GREECE Alexandra PAPADOPOULOU 02/06/20
SOUTH AFRICA Nomaindiya MFEKETO 04/08/20
UNITED KINGDOM Karen Elizabeth PIERCE 04/08/20
GUATEMALA Alfonso José QUINONEZ LEMUS 07/17/20
CANADA Kirsten HILLMAN 07/17/20
BENIN Jean-Claude Félix DO REGO 07/17/20
KENYA Lazarus Ombai AMAYO 07/17/20
BOTSWANA Onkokame Kitso MOKAILA 09/17/20
FINLAND Mikko Tapani HAUTALA 09/17/20
NORWAY Anniken Ramberg KRUTNES 09/17/20
BELGIUM Jean Arthur REGIBEAU 09/17/20
EGYPT Motaz Mounir ZAHRAN 09/17/20
URUGUAY Andrés Augusto DURÁN HAREAU 12/23/20
CABO VERDE José Luis do Livramento MONTEIRO ALVES DE BRITO 12/23/20
AFRICAN UNION Hilda SUKA-MAFUDZE 12/23/20
HUNGARY Szabolcs Ferenc TAKACS 12/23/20
COMOROS Issimail CHANFI 12/23/20
EL SALVADOR Carmen Milena MAYORGA VALERA 12/23/20
SERBIA Marko DJURIC 01/18/21
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Sonia GUZMÁN DE HERNÁNDEZ 01/18/21
NAMIBIA Margareth Natalie MENSAH-WILLIAMS 01/18/21
SLOVAKIA Radovan JAVORČÍK 01/18/21
TAJIKISTAN Farrukh HAMRALIZODA 02/17/21
OMAN Moosa Hamdan Moosa AL TAI 02/17/21
JAPAN TOMITA Koji 02/17/21
MEXICO Esteban MOCTEZUMA Barragán 04/20/21
TÜRKIYE Hasan Murat MERCAN 04/20/21
TONGA Viliana Va’inga TONĒ 04/20/21
UKRAINE Oksana MARKAROVA 07/07/21
KAZAKHSTAN Yerzhan ASHIKBAYEV 07/07/21
ZIMBABWE Tadeous Tafirenyika CHIFAMBA 07/07/21
LITHUANIA Audra PLEPYTĖ 07/07/21
NIGERIA Uzoma Elizabeth EMENIKE 07/07/21
KYRGYZSTAN Baktybek AMANBAEV 07/07/21
MAURITIUS Purmanund JHUGROO 07/07/21
ESTONIA Kristjan PRIKK 07/07/21
SAMOA Pa’olelei LUTERU 07/07/21
BELIZE Lynn Raymond YOUNG 07/07/21
GHANA Alima MAHAMA 07/07/21
GUYANA Samuel Archibald HINDS 07/07/21
ITALY Maria Angela ZAPPIA 09/15/21
PARAGUAY José Antonio DOS SANTOS BEDOYA 09/15/21
ROMANIA Dan Andrei MURARU 09/15/21
ARMENIA Lilit MAKUNTS 09/15/21
LUXEMBOURG Nicole BINTNER 09/15/21
AZERBAIJAN Khazar IBRAHIM 09/15/21
MAURITANIA BOIDE Cisse 09/15/21
LIECHTENSTEIN Georg SPARBER 12/01/21
NAURU Margo DEIYE 12/01/21
SEYCHELLES Ian Dereck Joseph MADELEINE 12/01/21
TANZANIA Elsie Sia KANZA 12/01/21
TUNISIA Hanene TAJOURI BESSASSI 12/01/21
MONGOLIA BATBAYAR Ulziidelger 12/01/21
ISRAEL Michael HERZOG 12/01/21
POLAND Marek Grzegorz MAGIEROWSKI 01/13/22
INDONESIA Rosan Perkasa ROESLANI 01/13/22
SRI LANKA Mahinda SAMARASINGHE 01/13/22
KOSOVO Ilir DUGOLLI 01/13/22
COTE D’IVOIRE Ibrahima TOURÉ 01/13/22
MALAWI Esme Jynet CHOMBO 04/19/22
CAMBODIA KEO Chhea 04/19/22
NIGER Mamadou Kiari LIMAN-TINGUIRI 04/19/22
VIETNAM Nguyen Quoc DUNG 04/19/22
NEPAL Sridhar KHATRI 04/19/22
THE BAHAMAS Wendall Kermith JONES 04/19/22
SURINAME Jan Marten Willem SCHALKWIJK 04/19/22
PAKISTAN Sardar Masood KHAN 04/19/22
YEMEN Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed AL-HADHRAMI 06/07/22
PORTUGAL Francisco António DUARTE LOPES 06/07/22
ETHIOPIA SELESHI Bekele Awulachew 06/07/22
GEORGIA David ZALKALIANI 06/07/22
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Marie-Hélène MATHEY-BOO 06/07/22
LAOS Sisavath INPHACHANH 06/07/22
ESWATINI Kennedy Fitzgerald GROENING 06/07/22
BULGARIA Georgi Velikov PANAYOTOV 06/07/22
CHILE Juan Gabriel VALDÉS Soublette 06/07/22
SAINT LUCIA Elizabeth DARIUS-CLARKE 06/07/22
MALI Sékou BERTHE 09/16/22
SOLOMON ISLANDS Jane Mugafalu Kabui WAETARA 09/16/22
PANAMA Ramón Eduardo MARTÍNEZ DE LA GUARDIA 09/16/22
LESOTHO Tumisang MOSOTHO 09/16/22
NORTH MACEDONIA Zoran POPOV 09/16/22
IRELAND Geraldine BYRNE NASON 09/16/22
DENMARK Christina Markus LASSEN 09/16/22
SUDAN Mohamed Abdalla Idris MOHAMED 09/16/22
CZECHIA Miloslav STAŠEK 09/16/22
NEW ZEALAND Bede Gilbert CORRY 09/16/22
COLOMBIA Luis Gilberto MURILLO URRUTIA 09/16/22
BANGLADESH Muhammad IMRAN 12/12/22
MOLDOVA Viorel URSU 12/12/22
UGANDA Robinah KAKONGE 12/12/22
MALDIVES Abdul GHAFOOR Mohamed 12/12/22
ALGERIA Mohammed HANECHE 12/12/22
THE GAMBIA Momodou Lamin BAH 12/12/22
GABON Noel Nelson MESSONE 12/12/22
HONDURAS Javier Efrain BU SOTO 12/12/22
LIBERIA Jeff Gongoer DOWANA 12/12/22
THAILAND Tanee SANGRAT 12/12/22
FRANCE Laurent BILI 4/19/23
MALAYSIA Mohamed NAZRI Bin Abdul Aziz 4/19/23
AUSTRIA Petra SCHNEEBAUER 4/19/23
GUINEA Fatoumata KABA 4/19/23
AUSTRALIA Kevin Michael RUDD 4/19/23
MOZAMBIQUE Alfredo Fabaio NUVUNGA 4/19/23
UZBEKISTAN Furkat SIDIKOV 4/19/23
MALTA Godfrey C. XUEREB 4/19/23
TUVALU Tapuago FALEFOU 4/19/23
COSTA RICA Catalina CRESPO SANCHO 4/19/23
REPUBLIC OF KOREA CHO Hyundong 4/19/23
KUWAIT Alzain Sabah Naser Saud ALSABAH 4/19/23
ZAMBIA Chibamba KANYAMA 6/30/23
PERU Gustavo Adolfo MEZA CUADRA Velásquez 6/30/23
CHINA XIE Feng 6/30/23
CHAD Gata KITOKO 6/30/23
ANGOLA Agostinho de Carvalho dos Santos VAN-DÚNEM 6/30/23
IRAQ Nazar Issa Abdulhadi AL-KHIRULLAH 6/30/23
SINGAPORE LUI Tuck Yew 6/30/23
BRAZIL Maria Luiza Ribeiro VIOTTI 6/30/23
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Sven ALKALAJ 6/30/23

CHARGE D’AFFAIRES AD INTERIM FOR BILATERAL MISSIONS

ERITREA Berhane Gebrehiwet Solomon, Counselor 03/15/11
PAPUA NEW GUINEA Cephas Kayo, Minister 01/31/18
MADAGASCAR Amielle Pelenne NIRINIAVISOA MARCEDA, Minister Counselor 10/31/19
CUBA Lianys TORRES RIVERA, Minister Counselor 01/14/21
LEBANON Wael HACHEM, Counselor 03/15/21
LIBYA Khaled DAIEF, Minister 08/27/21
DOMINICA Judith-Anne ROLLE, First Secretary 12/16/21
BURMA WIN Thet, Minister 06/22/22
BELARUS Pavel SHIDLOVSKY, Counselor 08/09/22
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS Shanelle Natasha SIMMONDS, First Secretary 08/26/22
BOLIVIA Maysa Rossana UREÑA MENACHO, Minister Counselor 09/01/22
BURKINA FASO Hermann Yirigouin TOE, Minister Counselor 09/27/22
MONTENEGRO Nebojsa TODOROVIC, Minister Counselor 12/07/22
TIMOR-LESTE Antonito DE ARAUJO, Minister 02/24/23
BURUNDI Préféré NDAYISHIMIYE, Counselor 03/18/23
MICRONESIA Jackson SORAM, Minister 03/31/23
HAITI Louis Harold JOSEPH, Minister 05/15/23
SLOVENIA Darja FERLEZ, Minister 06/05/23

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