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Diplomatic Relationship of Vatican City with other Jurisdictions

As of January 2023, the Holy See maintains diplomatic relations with 180 states, reflecting its extensive global reach. Additionally, it has diplomatic ties with the European Union and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, alongside special relations with the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Holy See actively participates in numerous intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization, among others. It holds various observer statuses and membership roles in organizations focused on health, agriculture, trade, and humanitarian efforts, showcasing its commitment to international dialogue and cooperation.
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BILATERAL RELATIONS OF THE HOLY SEE

Status- 2023 January

The Holy See has diplomatic relations
with 180 States:

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Albania       07.09.1991L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1991, p.738
Algeria06.03.1972L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1972, p.81
Andorra16.06.1995L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1995, p.294
Angola08.07.1997L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1997, p.446
Antigua and Barbuda15.12.1986L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1986, p.1016
Argentina1877 
Armenia23.05.1992 L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.371
Australia24.03.1973 L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1973, p.110
Austria09.08.1946* 
Azerbaijan23.05.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.371
Bahamas, The27.07.1979L’Osservatore Romano, 28.7.1979 p.1
Bahrain12.01.2000L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 2000, p.23
Bangladesh25.09.1972L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1972, p.353
Barbados19.04.1979L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1979, p.269-270
Belarus    11.11.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1991, p.715
Belgium1835 
Belize09.03.1983L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1983, p.188
Benin29.06.1971L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1971, p.269
Bolivia1877 
Bosnia ed Hercegovina18.08.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.279-580
Botswana04.11.2008L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 2008, p.338
Brazil1829 
Bulgaria06.12.1990L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1990, p.946
Burkina Faso14.06.1973L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1973, p.218
Burundi11.02.1963L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1963, p.41
Cambodia25.03.1994L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1994, p.259
Cameroon27.08.1966L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1966, p.549
Canada16.10.1969L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1969, p.468
Cape Verde12.05.1976L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1976, p.119
Central African Republic13.05.1967L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1967, p.439
Chad28.11.1988L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1988, p.1086
Chile1877 
China23.10.1942 
Colombia26.11.1835 
Cook Islands29.04.1999L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1999, p.236-237
Congo, Democratic Republic of the31.01.1977L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1977, p.43
Congo, Republic of the16.02.1963L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1963, p.42
Costa Rica1908 
Croatia08.02.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.77-78
Cuba02.09.1935AAS 28 (1936), p.64-65
Cyprus31.01.1973L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1973, p.46
Czech Republic19.04.1990*L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1990, p.276
Denmark02.08.1982L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1982, p.583
Djibouti20.05.2000L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 2000, p.305
Dominica01.09.1981L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1981, p.503
Dominican Republic1881 
East Timor20.05.2002L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 2002, p.277
Ecuador1877 
Egypt23.08.1947AAS 40 (1948), p.72-73
El Salvador1922 
Equatorial Guinea24.12.1981L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1981, p.762
Eritrea15.07.1995L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1995, p.352
Estonia03.10.1991*      
Ethiopia20.03.1957L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1957, p.35
Fiji12.09.1978L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1978, p.565
Finland1942 
FranceXVIยฐ  Century 
Gabon31.10.1967L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1967, p.1047
Gambia, The07.06.1978L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1978, p.565
Georgia23.05.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.371
Germany1920 
Ghana20.11.1975L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1975, p.387
Great Britain16.01.1982L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1982, p.45-46
Greece17.07.1979 L’Osservatore Romano, 18.07.1979 p.1
Grenada17.02.1979L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1979, p.136
Guatemala16.03.1936AAS 28 (1936), p.230
Guinea21.06.1986L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1986, p.496
Guinea Bissau12.07.1986L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1986, p.584
Guyana09.06.1997L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1997, p.390
Haiti1881 
Honduras1908 
Hungary09.02.1990*L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1990, p.129
IcelandOctober 1976L’Osservatore Romano, 13.10.1976 p.1
India12.06.1948L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1948, p.191
Indonesia13.03.1950L’Osservatore Romano, 13-14.3.1950 p.1
Iran02.05.1953L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1953, p.65
Iraq26.08.1966L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1966, p.548
Ireland27.11.1929AAS 22 (1939), p.131
Israel15.06.1994L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1994, p.464-465
Italy24.06.1929AAS 21 (1929), p.762-763
Ivory Coast26.10.1970L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1970, p.471
Jamaica20.07.1979L’Osservatore Romano, 21.07.1979 p.1
JapanMarch 1942 L’Osservatore Romano, 30-31.3.1942 p.1
Jordan03.03.1994L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1994, p.182
Kazakhstan17.10.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.666
Kenya19.06.1965L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1965, p.216
Kiribati10.04.1995L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1995, p.173
Korea, Republic of11.12.1963 L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1963, p.271
Kuwait21.10.1968L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1968, p.951
Kyrgyzstan27.08.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.585
Latvia01.10.1991*L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.821
LebanonNovember 1946 
Lesotho11.03.1967L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1967, p.184
Liberia15.12.1927AAS 43 (1927), p.774
Libya10.03.1997L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1997, p.155-156
Liechtenstein28.08.1985L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1985, p.721
Lithuania30.09.1991*L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1991, p.821
Luxembourg1891 
Macedoine, The Former Yugoslav Republic of21.12.1994L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1994, p.984
Madagascar24.12.1966L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1966, p.839
Malaysia27.07.2011 
Malawi05.02.1966L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1966, p.60
Mali29.10.1979L’Osservatore Romano 29-30.10.1979, p.2
Malta15.12.1965L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1965, p.545
Marshall Islands30.12.1993L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1993, p.1077
Mauritius09.03.1970L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1970, p.946
Mexico21.09.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.606
Micronesia26.01.1994L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1994, p.83
Morocco15.01.1976L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1976, p.21
Moldova23.05.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.371
Monaco1875 
Mongolia04.04.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.241-242
Montenegro16.12.2006L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 2006, p.497
Mozambique14.12.1995L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1995, p.639
Namibia12.09.1995L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1995, p.423
Nauru01.06.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.403
Nepal10.09.1983L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1983, p.642
Netherlands1829 
New Zealand20.06.1973L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1973, p.228
Nicaragua1908 
Niger20.07.1971L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1971, p.293
Nigeria20.11.1975L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1975, p.387
Norway02.08.1982L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1982, p.583
Pakistan06.10.1951L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1951, p.117
Palau17.12.1998L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1998, p.682
Panama1923 
Papua New Guinea07.03.1977L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1977, p.81
Paraguay1877 
Peru1877 
Philippines08.04.1951L’Osservatore Romano, 9-10.4.1951, p.2
Poland17.07.1989*L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1989, p.573
PortugalXVIยฐ  Century 
Qatar18.11.2002L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 2002, p.588
Romania15.05.1990*L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1990, p.563
Russian Federation09.12.2009 
Rwanda06.06.1964L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1964, p.228
Saint Kitts and Nevis19.07.1999L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1999, p.441
Saint Lucia01.09.1984L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1984, p.622
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines16.04.1990L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1990, p.272
Samoa10.06.1994L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1994, p.450
San MarinoApril 1926 
Sรฃo Tomรฉ and Prรญncipe21.12.1984L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1984, p.976
Senegal17.11.1961L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1961, p.130
Serbia14.08.1970*L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1970, p.358
Seychelles27.07.1984L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1984, p.571
Sierra Leone30.07.1996L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1996, p.314
Singapore24.06.1981L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1981, p.425
Slovakia01.01.1993*L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1993, p.5
Slovenia08.02.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.77-78
Solomon Islands09.05.1984 
South Africa05.03.1994L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1994, p.188
South Sudan22.02.2013 
SpainXVยฐ  Century 
Sri Lanka06.09.1975L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1975, p.285
Sudan29.04.1972L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1972, p.154
Suriname16.02.1994L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1994, p.133
Swaziland11.03.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.184
Sweden02.08.1982L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1982, p.583
SwitzerlandXVIยฐ  Century 
Syria21.02.1953L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1953, p.43-44
Tajikistan15.06.1996L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1996, p.238
Tanzania19.04.1968AAS 60 (1969), p.521
Thailand28.04.1968L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1969, p.187-188
Togo21.04.1981L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1981, p.881
Tonga24.08.1994L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1994, p.562-563
Trinidad and Tobago23.07.1978L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1978, p.565
Tunisia22.03.1972L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1972, p.97
Turkey25.01.1960L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1960, p.28
Turkmenistan10.07.1996L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1996, p.300
Uganda01.09.1966L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1966, p.720
Ukraine08.02.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.77-78
United Arab Emirates31.05.2007L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 2007, p.230
United States10.01.1984L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1984, p.25
Uruguay1877 
Uzbekistan17.10.1992L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1992, p.666
Vanuatu20.07.1994L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1994, p.525
Venezuela1881 
Yemen13.10.1998L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1998, p.537
Zambia15.05.1965L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1965, p.182
Zimbabwe26.06.1980L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1980, p.446

The Holy See has Diplomatic Relations also with:

European Union

13.12.2007

 
Sovereign Military Order of MaltaFebruary 1930 

The Holy See has relations of a special nature with:

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)25.10.1994L’Attivitร  della Santa Sede 1970, p.778-779

*Dates with an asterisk indicate the resumption of diplomatic relations.

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The Holy See participates in various Intergovernmental Organizations and Bodies and International Programmes, including: 

UNUnited Nations Organization, New York, Observer
UNOG United Nations Office in Geneva, Geneva, Observer
UNOVUnited Nations Office in Vienna, Vienna, Observer
UNHCRUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, Member of the Executive Committee
UNCTADUnited Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva, Member
WIPOWorld Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Member
IAEAInternational Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Member
OPCWOrganization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague, Member
CTBTOPreparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna, Member
ICMMInternational Committee of Military Medicine, Brussels, Member
FAOUnited Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Observer
ILOInternational Labour Organization, Geneva, Observer
WHOWorld Health Organization, Geneva, Observer
UNESCOUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, Observer
UNIDOUnited Nations Industrial Development Organization, Vienna, Observer
IFADInternational Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome, Observer
UNWTOWorld Tourist Organization, Madrid, Observer
WMOWorld Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Observer
WTOWorld Trade Organization, Geneva, Observer
UNDPUnited Nations Development Program, New York, Observer
UN-HABITATUnited Nations Centre for Human Settlements, Nairobi, Observer
UNEPUnited Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Observer
WFPWorld Food Programme, Rome, Observer
INTOSAIInternational Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions, Vienna, Member
CIECInternational Commission on Civil Status, Strasbourg, Observer
ULLatin Union, Paris, Permanent Guest
OSCEOrganization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Vienna, Member
CECouncil of Europe, Strasbourg, Observer
AUAfrican Union, Addis Abeba, Non-Member Accredited State
OASOrganization of American States, Washington, Observer
LASLeague of Arab States, Cairo, Non-Member Accredited State
AALCOAsian-African Legal Consultative Organization, New Delhi, Guest
UNIDROITInternational Institute for the Unification of Private Law, Rome, Member
IOM/OIMInternational Organization for Migration, Member 

The Vatican City State participates in various International and Intergovernmental Organizations, including:

UPUUniversal Postal Union, Bern, Member
ITUInternational Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Member
IGCInternational Grains Council, London, Member
ITSOInternational Telecommunications Satellite Organization, Washington D.C., Member
EUTELSAT IGOEuropean Telecommunication Satellite Organization, Paris, Member
CEPTEuropean Conference of Postal and Telecommunications, Copenhagen, Member
IISAInternational Institute of Administrative Sciences, Brussels, Member
  

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