States Recognised By The United Nations

States recognised by the United Nations State Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra

Head of state Head of government President Hamid Karzai Prime Minister Sali President Bamir Topi Berisha Prime Minister Ahmed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Ouyahia Co-Prince Joan Enric Vives Sicília Head of Government Representative Nemesi Marqués Oste Co-Prince Nicolas Sarkozy Albert Pintat Representative Philippe Massoni

Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina

Prime Minister Paulo Kassoma [1] Prime Minister Baldwin Queen Elizabeth II Governor General Louise Lake-Tack Spencer President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner President José Eduardo dos Santos

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer Prime Minister Artur Rasizade Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham Prime Minister Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah

Armenia

President Serzh Sargsyan

Australia

Queen Elizabeth II[1]

Austria

President Heinz Fischer

Azerbaijan

President Ilham Aliyev

Bahamas

Queen Elizabeth II[1]

Bahrain

King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah

Bangladesh

President Iajuddin Ahmed

Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed

Barbados

Queen Elizabeth II[1]

Belarus

President Alexander Lukashenko

Belgium

King Albert II

Belize

Queen Elizabeth II[1]

Prime Minister David Thompson Prime Minister Sergey Sidorsky Prime Minister Yves Leterme Prime Minister Dean Barrow

Benin Bhutan Bolivia

Governor General Quentin Bryce

Governor General Arthur Dion Hanna

Governor General Clifford Husbands

Governor General Colville Young

President Yayi Boni Prime Minister Jigme Thinley President Evo Morales

King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck

Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei

Chairman of the Presidency Nebojša Radmanović[2] Presidency Member Željko Komšić Presidency Member Haris Silajdžić

Prime Minister Nikola Špirić

President Ian Khama President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Prime Minister Sergey Bulgaria President Georgi Parvanov Stanishev Prime Minister Tertius Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré Zongo Chairman of the State Peace and Development Burma Prime Minister Thein Sein Council Than Shwe Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza Cambodia King Norodom Sihamoni Prime Minister Hun Sen Prime Minister Ephraïm Cameroon President Paul Biya Inoni [1] Prime Minister Stephen Queen Elizabeth II Canada Governor General Michaëlle Jean Harper Prime Minister José Maria Cape Verde President Pedro Pires Neves Central Prime Minister FaustinAfrican President François Bozizé Archange Touadéra Republic Prime Minister Youssouf Chad President Idriss Déby Saleh Abbas Chile President Michelle Bachelet China President Hu Jintao Premier Wen Jiabao Colombia President Álvaro Uribe Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi CongoPresident Denis Sassou-Nguesso Brazzaville CongoPrime Minister Adolphe President Joseph Kabila Kinshasa Muzito Costa Rica President Óscar Arias Prime Minister Ivo Croatia President Stjepan Mesić Sanader Cuba President of the Council of State Raúl Castro Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias Czech Prime Minister Mirek President Václav Klaus Republic Topolánek Prime Minister Anders Denmark Queen Margrethe II Fogh Rasmussen Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh Prime Minister Dileita

Dominica

President Nicholas Liverpool

Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia

President Leonel Fernández Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão President Rafael Correa Prime Minister Ahmed President Hosni Mubarak Nazif President Antonio Saca Prime Minister Ignacio President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo Milam Tang President Isaias Afewerki Prime Minister Andrus President Toomas Hendrik Ilves Ansip Prime Minister Meles President Girma Wolde-Giorgis Zenawi President José Ramos-Horta

Fiji

President Josefa Iloilo

Finland

President Tarja Halonen

France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala GuineaBissau Guinea Guyana Haiti Honduras

Mohamed Dileita Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit

Acting Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama

Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen Prime Minister François President Nicolas Sarkozy Fillon Prime Minister Jean President Omar Bongo Eyeghe Ndong President Yahya Jammeh Prime Minister Grigol President Mikheil Saakashvili Mgaloblishvili President Horst Köhler Chancellor Angela Merkel President John Kufuor Prime Minister Kostas President Karolos Papoulias Karamanlis [1] Prime Minister Tillman Queen Elizabeth II Governor General Daniel Williams Thomas President Álvaro Colom Prime Minister Carlos President João Bernardo Vieira Correia Prime Minister Ahmed President Lansana Conté Tidiane Souaré President Bharrat Jagdeo Prime Minister Sam Hinds Prime Minister Michèle President René Préval Pierre-Louis President Manuel Zelaya

Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya

Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány Prime Minister Geir President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson Haarde Prime Minister Manmohan President Pratibha Patil Singh President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Jalal Talabani (Pres.),[3] Adil Abdul Mahdi Prime Minister Nouri al(VP), Tariq al-Hashimi (VP) Maliki President Mary McAleese Taoiseach Brian Cowen Prime Minister Ehud President Shimon Peres Olmert Prime Minister Silvio President Giorgio Napolitano Berlusconi Prime Minister Guillaume President Laurent Gbagbo Soro [1] Prime Minister Bruce Queen Elizabeth II Governor General Kenneth Hall Golding Emperor Akihito Prime Minister Taro Aso Prime Minister Nader alKing Abdullah II Dahabi Prime Minister Karim President Nursultan Nazarbayev Massimov Prime Minister Raila President Mwai Kibaki Odinga President Anote Tong Prime Minister Nasser AlEmir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah Prime Minister Igor President Kurmanbek Bakiyev Chudinov Prime Minister Bouasone President Choummaly Sayasone Bouphavanh Prime Minister Ivars President Valdis Zatlers Godmanis Prime Minister Fouad President Michel Sleiman Siniora Prime Minister Pakalitha King Letsie III Mosisili President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Guide of the Revolution Muammar al-Gaddafi Secretary General of the General People's Prime Minister Baghdadi President László Sólyom

Congress Miftah Muhammed K'eba Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II

Mahmudi Head of Government Prince-Regent Alois Otmar Hasler Prime Minister Gediminas Lithuania President Valdas Adamkus Kirkilas Prime Minister JeanLuxembourg Grand Duke Henri Claude Juncker Prime Minister Nikola Macedonia President Branko Crvenkovski Gruevski Prime Minister Charles Madagascar President Marc Ravalomanana Rabemananjara Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika Prime Minister Abdullah Malaysia Yang di-Pertuan Agong Mizan Zainal Abidin Ahmad Badawi Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed Prime Minister Modibo Mali President Amadou Toumani Touré Sidibé Prime Minister Lawrence Malta President Edward Fenech Adami Gonzi Marshall President Litokwa Tomeing Islands President of the High Council of State Prime Minister Moulaye Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Ould Mohamed Laghdaf Prime Minister Navin Mauritius President Anerood Jugnauth Ramgoolam Mexico President Felipe Calderón Micronesia President Manny Mori Prime Minister Zinaida Moldova President Vladimir Voronin Greceanîi Minister of State Jean-Paul Monaco Prince Albert II Proust Prime Minister Sanjaagiin Mongolia President Nambaryn Enkhbayar Bayar Prime Minister Milo Montenegro President Filip Vujanović Đukanović Prime Minister Abbas El Morocco King Muhammad VI Fassi Prime Minister Luisa Mozambique President Armando Guebuza Diogo Prime Minister Nahas Namibia President Hifikepunye Pohamba Angula Nauru President Marcus Stephen Prime Minister Pushpa Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav Kamal Dahal

Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende Prime Minister Helen [1] Clark New Zealand Queen Elizabeth II Governor General Anand Satyanand Prime Minister-elect John Key Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega Prime Minister Seyni Niger President Tandja Mamadou Oumarou Nigeria President Umaru Yar'Adua Chairman of the National Defence Commission Kim Jong-il North Korea Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Premier Kim Yong-il People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam Netherlands

Queen Beatrix

Eternal President Kim Il-sung[4]

Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg

King Harald V Sultan Qaboos

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani President Tommy Remengesau President-elect Johnson Toribiong President Martín Torrijos [1] Prime Minister Michael Queen Elizabeth II Governor General Paulias Matane Somare President Fernando Lugo Prime Minister Yehude President Alan García Simon President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Prime Minister Donald President Lech Kaczyński Tusk Prime Minister José President Aníbal Cavaco Silva Sócrates Prime Minister Hamad ibn Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Jaber Al Thani Prime Minister Călin President Traian Băsescu Popescu-Tăriceanu Prime Minister Vladimir President Dmitry Medvedev Putin Prime Minister Bernard President Paul Kagame Makuza [1] Prime Minister Denzil Queen Elizabeth II Governor General Cuthbert Sebastian Douglas [1] Prime Minister Stephenson Queen Elizabeth II Governor General Pearlette Louisy King President Asif Ali Zardari

Saint Vincent Queen Elizabeth II[1] and the Governor General Frederick Ballantyne Grenadines

Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves

Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi Captain Regent Ernesto Benedettini San Marino Captain Regent Assunta Meloni São Tomé and Prime Minister Joaquim President Fradique de Menezes Príncipe Rafael Branco Saudi Arabia King Abdullah Prime Minister Cheikh Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade Hadjibou Soumaré Prime Minister Mirko Serbia President Boris Tadić Cvetković Seychelles President James Michel Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma Prime Minister Lee Hsien Singapore President Sellapan Ramanathan Loong Prime Minister Robert Slovakia President Ivan Gašparovič Fico Prime Minister Borut Slovenia President Danilo Türk Pahor [1] Solomon Prime Minister Derek Queen Elizabeth II Governor General Nathaniel Waena Islands Sikua Prime Minister Nur Somalia President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed Hassan Hussein South Africa President Kgalema Motlanthe Prime Minister Han South Korea President Lee Myung-bak Seung-soo Prime Minister José Luis Spain King Juan Carlos Rodríguez Zapatero Prime Minister Ratnasiri Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa Wickremanayake Sudan President Omar al-Bashir Suriname President Ronald Venetiaan Prime Minister Barnabas Swaziland King Mswati III Sibusiso Dlamini Prime Minister Fredrik Sweden King Carl XVI Gustaf Reinfeldt [5] Pascal Couchepin (Pres.), Hans-Rudolf Merz (VP), Moritz Leuenberger, Switzerland Samuel Schmid, Micheline Calmy-Rey, Doris Leuthard, Eveline WidmerSchlumpf Prime Minister Syria President Bashar al-Assad Muhammad Naji al-Otari Samoa

O le Ao o le Malo Tufuga Efi

Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov Prime Minister Mizengo Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete Pinda Prime Minister Somchai Thailand King Bhumibol Adulyadej Wongsawat Prime Minister Gilbert Togo President Faure Gnassingbé Houngbo Prime Minister Feleti Tonga King George Tupou V Sevele Trinidad and Prime Minister Patrick President George Maxwell Richards Tobago Manning Prime Minister Mohamed Tunisia President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Ghannouchi Prime Minister Recep Turkey President Abdullah Gül Tayyip Erdoğan Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow Prime Minister Apisai Queen Elizabeth II[1] Tuvalu Governor General Filoimea Telito Ielemia Prime Minister Apolo Uganda President Yoweri Museveni Nsibambi Prime Minister Yulia Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko Tymoshenko Prime Minister United Arab President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Mohammed bin Rashid Al Emirates Maktoum United Prime Minister Gordon Queen Elizabeth II Kingdom Brown President George W. Bush United States President-elect Barack Obama Uruguay President Tabaré Vázquez Prime Minister Shavkat Uzbekistan President Islom Karimov Mirziyoyev Prime Minister Edward Vanuatu President Kalkot Mataskelekele Natapei President of the Vatican City Pope Benedict XVI Governorate Giovanni Lajolo Venezuela President Hugo Chávez Prime Minister Nguyễn Vietnam President Nguyễn Minh Triết Tấn Dũng Prime Minister Ali Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh Muhammad Mujawar Zambia President Rupiah Banda Tajikistan

President Emomalii Rahmon

Zimbabwe

President Robert Mugabe

Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai

[edit] States recognised by United Nations member states State Abkhazia Kosovo Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Republic of China Western Sahara

Head of state President Sergei Bagapsh President Fatmir Sejdiu

Head of government Prime Minister Alexander Ankvab Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi

President Mehmet Ali Talat

Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer

President Mahmoud Abbas

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad

President Eduard Kokoyty[6]

Prime Minister Aslanbek Bulatsev

President Ma Ying-jeou

Premier Liu Chao-shiuan

President Mohamed Abdelaziz

Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Oumar

[edit] States not recognised by the United Nations This list encompass the leaders of geo-political entities that lack significant international recognition. The degree of control these entities exert over their claimed territories may vary. State Head of state Head of government NagornoPrime Minister Arayik President Bako Sahakyan Karabakh Harutyunyan Somaliland President Dahir Riyale Kahin Transnistria President Igor Smirnov

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