States Recognised by the United Nations

States Recognised by the United Nations

State	Head of state	Head of government
Afghanistan	President Hamid Karzai
Albania	President Bujar Nishani	Prime Minister Sali Berisha
Algeria	President Abdelaziz Bouteflika	Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal
Andorra	Co-Prince Joan Enric Vives i Sicília Representative Josep Maria Mauri Co-Prince François Hollande Representative Sylvie Hubac	Prime Minister Antoni Martí
Angola	President José Eduardo dos Santos
Antigua and Barbuda	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Dame Louise Lake-Tack	Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer
Argentina	President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Armenia	President Serzh Sargsyan	Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan
Australia	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2][3] Governor-General Quentin Bryce	Prime Minister Julia Gillard
Austria	President Heinz Fischer	Chancellor Werner Faymann
Azerbaijan	President Ilham Aliyev	Prime Minister Artur Rasizade
Bahamas	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Arthur Foulkes	Prime Minister Perry Christie
Bahrain	King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa	Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
Bangladesh	Acting President Abdul Hamid	Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Barbados	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Elliott Belgrave	Prime Minister Freundel Stuart
Belarus	President Alexander Lukashenko	Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich
Belgium	King Albert II	Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo
Belize	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Colville Young	Prime Minister Dean Barrow
Benin	President Yayi Boni	Prime Minister Pascal Koupaki
Bhutan	King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck	Prime Minister Jigme Thinley
Bolivia	President Evo Morales
Bosnia and Herzegovina	High Representative Valentin Inzko
	Presidency:[4] Nebojša Radmanović (Chairman) Željko Komšić (Member) Bakir Izetbegović (Member)	Prime Minister Vjekoslav Bevanda
Botswana	President Ian Khama
Brazil	President Dilma Rousseff
Brunei	Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
Bulgaria	President Rosen Plevneliev	Acting Prime Minister Marin Raykov
Burkina Faso	President Blaise Compaoré	Prime Minister Luc-Adolphe Tiao
Burma	President Thein Sein
Burundi	President Pierre Nkurunziza
Cambodia	King Norodom Sihamoni	Prime Minister Hun Sen
Cameroon	President Paul Biya	Prime Minister Philémon Yang
Canada	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor General David Johnston	Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Cape Verde	President Jorge Carlos Fonseca	Prime Minister José Maria Neves
Central African Republic	President Michel Djotodia	Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye
Chad	President Idriss Déby	Prime Minister Djimrangar Dadnadji
Chile	President Sebastián Piñera
China	President Xi Jinping	Premier Li Keqiang
Colombia	President Juan Manuel Santos
Comoros	President Ikililou Dhoinine
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	President Joseph Kabila	Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo
Congo, Republic of the	President Denis Sassou Nguesso
Costa Rica	President Laura Chinchilla
Croatia	President Ivo Josipović	Prime Minister Zoran Milanović
Cuba	President Raúl Castro
Cyprus	President Nicos Anastasiades
Czech Republic	President Miloš Zeman	Prime Minister Petr Nečas
Denmark	Queen Margrethe II	Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Djibouti	President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh	Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed
Dominica	President Eliud Williams	Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit
Dominican Republic	President Danilo Medina
East Timor	President Taur Matan Ruak	Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão
Ecuador	President Rafael Correa
Egypt	President Mohamed Morsi	Prime Minister Hesham Qandil
El Salvador	President Mauricio Funes
Equatorial Guinea	President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	Prime Minister Vicente Ehate Tomi
Eritrea	President Isaias Afewerki
Estonia	President Toomas Hendrik Ilves	Prime Minister Andrus Ansip
Ethiopia	President Girma Wolde-Giorgis	Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn
Fiji	President Epeli Nailatikau	Acting Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama
Finland	President Sauli Niinistö	Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen
France	President François Hollande	Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault
Gabon	President Ali Bongo Ondimba	Prime Minister Raymond Ndong Sima
Gambia, The	President Yahya Jammeh
Georgia	President Mikheil Saakashvili	Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili
Germany	President Joachim Gauck	Chancellor Angela Merkel
Ghana	President John Dramani Mahama
Greece	President Karolos Papoulias	Prime Minister Antonis Samaras
Grenada	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Carlyle Glean	Prime Minister Keith Mitchell
Guatemala	President Otto Pérez Molina
Guinea	President Alpha Condé	Prime Minister Mohamed Said Fofana
Guinea-Bissau	Acting President Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo	Acting Prime Minister Rui Duarte de Barros
Guyana	President Donald Ramotar	Prime Minister Sam Hinds
Haiti	President Michel Martelly	Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe
Honduras	President Porfirio Lobo Sosa
Hungary	President János Áder	Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
Iceland	President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson	Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
India	President Pranab Mukherjee	Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Indonesia	President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Iran	Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
	President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iraq	President Jalal Talabani	Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
Ireland	President Michael D. Higgins	Taoiseach Enda Kenny
Israel	President Shimon Peres	Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Italy	President Giorgio Napolitano	Prime Minister Mario Monti
Ivory Coast	President Alassane Ouattara	Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan
Jamaica	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2][5] Governor-General Sir Patrick Allen	Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller
Japan	Emperor Akihito	Prime Minister Shinzō Abe
Jordan	King Abdullah II	Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour
Kazakhstan	President Nursultan Nazarbayev	Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov
Kenya	President Uhuru Kenyatta
Kiribati	President Anote Tong
Kuwait	Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah	Prime Minister Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah
Kyrgyzstan	President Almazbek Atambayev	Prime Minister Zhantoro Satybaldiyev
Laos	President Choummaly Sayasone	Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong
Latvia	President Andris Bērziņš	Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis
Lebanon	President Michel Suleiman	Prime Minister Najib Mikati Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam
Lesotho	King Letsie III	Prime Minister Tom Thabane
Liberia	President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Libya	Chairman of the General National Congress Mohammed Magariaf	Prime Minister Ali Zeidan
Liechtenstein	Prince Hans-Adam II Prince-Regent Alois	Prime Minister Adrian Hasler
Lithuania	President Dalia Grybauskaitė	Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius
Luxembourg	Grand Duke Henri	Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker
Macedonia	President Gjorge Ivanov	Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski
Madagascar	President of the High Authority of Transition Andry Rajoelina	Prime Minister Omer Beriziky
Malawi	President Joyce Banda
Malaysia	Yang di-Pertuan Agong Abdul Halim	Prime Minister Najib Razak
Maldives	President Mohammed Waheed Hassan
Mali	Acting President Dioncounda Traoré	Acting Prime Minister Django Sissoko
Malta	President George Abela	Prime Minister Joseph Muscat
Marshall Islands	President Christopher Loeak
Mauritania	President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz	Prime Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf
Mauritius	President Rajkeswur Purryag	Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam
Mexico	President Enrique Peña Nieto
Micronesia, Federated States of	President Manny Mori
Moldova	President Nicolae Timofti	Prime Minister Vlad Filat
Monaco	Prince Albert II	Minister of State Michel Roger
Mongolia	President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj	Prime Minister Norovyn Altankhuyag
Montenegro	President Filip Vujanović	Prime Minister Milo Đukanović
Morocco	King Mohammed VI	Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane
Mozambique	President Armando Guebuza	Prime Minister Alberto Vaquina
Namibia	President Hifikepunye Pohamba	Prime Minister Hage Geingob
Nauru	President Sprent Dabwido
Nepal	President Ram Baran Yadav	Prime Minister Khil Raj Regmi
Netherlands	Queen Beatrix Heir apparent Willem-Alexander	Prime Minister Mark Rutte
New Zealand	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae	Prime Minister John Key
Nicaragua	President Daniel Ortega
Niger	President Mahamadou Issoufou	Prime Minister Brigi Rafini
Nigeria	President Goodluck Jonathan
North Korea	Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un[6]
	Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam	Premier Pak Pong-ju
Norway	King Harald V	Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg
Oman	Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said
Pakistan	President Asif Ali Zardari	Acting Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso
Palau	President Tommy Remengesau
Palestine	President Mahmoud Abbas	Prime Minister Salam Fayyad
Panama	President Ricardo Martinelli
Papua New Guinea	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Michael Ogio	Prime Minister Peter O'Neill
Paraguay	President Federico Franco
Peru	President Ollanta Humala	Prime Minister Juan Jiménez Mayor
Philippines	President Benigno Aquino III
Poland	President Bronisław Komorowski	Prime Minister Donald Tusk
Portugal	President Aníbal Cavaco Silva	Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho
Qatar	Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani	Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani
Romania	President Traian Băsescu	Prime Minister Victor Ponta
Russia	President Vladimir Putin	Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
Rwanda	President Paul Kagame	Prime Minister Pierre Habumuremyi
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor General Sir Edmund Lawrence	Prime Minister Denzil Douglas
Saint Lucia	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Dame Pearlette Louisy	Prime Minister Kenny Anthony
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Frederick Ballantyne	Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves
Samoa	O le Ao o le Malo Tufuga Efi	Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
San Marino	Captain Regent Antonella Mularoni Captain Regent Denis Amici
São Tomé and Príncipe	President Manuel Pinto da Costa	Prime Minister Gabriel Costa
Saudi Arabia	King Abdullah
Senegal	President Macky Sall	Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye
Serbia	President Tomislav Nikolić	Prime Minister Ivica Dačić
Seychelles	President James Michel
Sierra Leone	President Ernest Bai Koroma
Singapore	President Tony Tan	Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
Slovakia	President Ivan Gašparovič	Prime Minister Robert Fico
Slovenia	President Borut Pahor	Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek
Solomon Islands	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Frank Kabui	Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo
Somalia	President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud	Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon
South Africa	President Jacob Zuma
South Korea	President Park Geun-hye	Prime Minister Jung Hong-won
South Sudan	President Salva Kiir Mayardit
Spain	King Juan Carlos I	Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy
Sri Lanka	President Mahinda Rajapaksa	Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne
Sudan	President Omar al-Bashir
Suriname	President Dési Bouterse
Swaziland	King Mswati III	Prime Minister Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini
Sweden	King Carl XVI Gustaf	Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt
Switzerland	Federal Council:[7] Ueli Maurer (Pres.), Didier Burkhalter (VP.), Doris Leuthard, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Simonetta Sommaruga, Johann Schneider-Ammann, Alain Berset
Syria	President Bashar al-Assad	Prime Minister Wael Nader Al-Halqi
Tajikistan	President Emomalii Rahmon	Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov
Tanzania	President Jakaya Kikwete	Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda
Thailand	King Bhumibol Adulyadej	Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra
Togo	President Faure Gnassingbé	Prime Minister Kwesi Ahoomey-Zunu
Tonga	King Tupou VI	Prime Minister Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō
Trinidad and Tobago	President Anthony Carmona	Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Tunisia	President Moncef Marzouki	Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh
Turkey	President Abdullah Gül	Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Turkmenistan	President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Tuvalu	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Iakoba Italeli	Prime Minister Willy Telavi
Uganda	President Yoweri Museveni	Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi
Ukraine	President Viktor Yanukovych	Prime Minister Mykola Azarov
United Arab Emirates	President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan	Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
United Kingdom	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2]	Prime Minister David Cameron
United States	President Barack Obama
Uruguay	President José Mujica
Uzbekistan	President Islam Karimov	Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Vanuatu	President Iolu Abil	Prime Minister Moana Carcasses Kalosil
Vatican City	Sovereign Francis	President of the Governorate Giuseppe Bertello
Venezuela	Acting President Nicolás Maduro
Vietnam	General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong
	President Truong Tan Sang	Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung
Yemen	President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi	Prime Minister Mohammed Basindawa
Zambia	President Michael Sata
Zimbabwe	President Robert Mugabe	Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai