Order of precedence
Order of Precedence among Heads of Diplomatic Missions as at
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| Brunei Darussalam | 6 August 2008 | HE Datin Paduka Tan Bee Yong, High Commissioner, Brunei | |
| Lesotho | 24 March 2010 | HE Ms Ntsebe Kokome, High Commissioner, Kuala Lumpur | |
| Oman | 24 March 2010 | HE Mr Khalid Al-Muslahi, Ambassador, Tokyo | |
| Samoa | 17 April 2012 | HE Mr Leasi Papali'i Tommy Scanlan, High Commissioner, Wellington, and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps |
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| Russia | 4 December 2012 | HE Mr Valery Tereshchenko, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Malawi | 20 March 2013 | HE Mr Reuben Ngwenya, High Commissioner, Tokyo | |
| Estonia | 20 March 2013 | HE Mr Andres Unga, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Laos | 20 March 2013 | HE Mr Phomma Khammanichanh, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Seychelles | 16 May 2013 | HE Mr Waven William, High Commissioner, New Delhi | |
| Holy See | 3 September 2013 | HE Archbishop Martin Krebs, Apostolic Nuncio, Wellington | |
| Solomon Islands | 5 March 2014 | HE Mrs Joy Kere, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| Slovak Republic | 12 March 2014 | HE Dr Igor Bartho, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Timor-Leste | 1 May 2014 | HE Mr Cristiano da Costa, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Portugal | 1 May 2014 | HE Mr Paulo Cunha Alves, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Croatia | 26 August 2014 | HE Dr Damir Kusen, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Liberia | 26 August 2014 | HE Ms Yongor Telewoda, Ambassador, Tokyo | |
| Netherlands | 17 September 2014 | HE Mr Robert Zaagman, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Poland | 17 September 2014 | HE Mr Zbigniew Gniatkowski, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Viet Nam | 17 September 2014 | HE Mr Nguyen Viet Dung, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Switzerland | 30 October 2014 | HE Mr David Vogelsanger, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Iran | 30 October 2014 | HE Mr Jalaladdin Namini Mianji, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Kosovo | 30 October 2014 | HE Dr Sabri Kiqmari, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Czech Republic | 30 October 2014 | HE Mr Martin Pohl, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Jamaica | 2 December 2014 | HE Mr Clement Philip Ricardo Allcock, High Commissioner, Tokyo | |
| Uruguay | 3 December 2014 | HE Dr Ricardo Javier Varela Fernandez, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Sweden | 3 December 2014 | HE Mr Par Ahlberger, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Malta | 3 December 2014 | HE Mr Charles Muscat, High Commissioner, Canberra | |
| Tuvalu | 23 February 2015 | HE Mr Samuelu Laloniu, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 March 2015 | HE Brigadier General (Rtd) Francis Agwi, CSM, CBE, DMS, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| Thailand | 3 March 2015 | HE Mr Maris Sangiampongsa, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| France | 3 March 2015 | HE Mrs Florence Jeanblanc-Risler, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Bangladesh | 3 March 2015 | HE Mr Kazi Imtiaz Hossain, High Commissioner, Canberra | |
| fYRO Macedonia | 15 April 2015 | HE Mr Vele Trpevski, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Belarus | 15 April 2015 | HE Mr Viktar Shykh, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Bulgaria | 15 April 2015 | HE Ms Emilia Stefanova-Veleva, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Romania | 3 June 2015 | HE Mrs Nineta Barbulescu, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Norway | 3 June 2015 | HE Ms Unni Klovstad, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Canada | 29 June 2015 | HE Mr Mario Bot, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| Japan | 15 July 2015 | HE Mr Toshihisa Takata, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Singapore | 15 July 2015 | HE Mr Bernard Baker, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| Ghana | 15 July 2015 | HE Mrs Mercy Debrah-Karikari, High Commissioner, Canberra | |
| Serbia | 15 July 2015 | HE Mr Miroljub Petrovic, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Mauritania | 2 September 2015 | HE Mr Yahya Ngam, Ambassador, Tokyo | |
| Algeria | 2 September 2015 | HE Mr Abdelaziz Lahiouel, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Egypt | 26 November 2015 | HE Mr Tarek Elwassimy, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Cuba | 26 November 2015 | HE Mr Mario Alzugaray Rodriguez, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Fiji | 26 November 2015 | HE Mr Filimone Waqabaca, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| Montenegro | 26 November 2015 | HE Mr Darko Uskokovic, Ambassador, Abu Dhabi | |
| Kenya | 26 November 2015 | HE Mr Isaiya Kabira, High Commissioner, Canberra | |
| Hungary | 10 February 2016 | HE Dr Attila Laszlo Gruber, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Sri Lanka | 10 February 2016 | HE Mr Somasundarum Skandakumar, High Commissioner, Canberra | |
| Cambodia | 10 February 2016 | HE Mr Kuong Koy, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Mongolia | 10 February 2016 | HE Mr Batlai Chuluunhuu, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| India | 20 April 2016 | HE Mr Sanjiv Kohli, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| Argentina | 20 April 2016 | HE Mr Fausto Mariano López Crozet, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Philippines | 20 April 2016 | HE Mr Jesus Domingo, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Hungary | 20 April 2016 | HE Mr László Zsolt Szabó, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Guinea | 20 April 2016 | HE Mr Senkoun Sylla, Ambassador, Tokyo | |
| Zimbabwe | 20 April 2016 | HE Mr George Tsaurai Mudzviti Vengesa, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Cook Islands | 25 May 2016 | HE Mrs Teremoana Yala, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| Mexico | 1 June 2016 | HE Mr Jose Gerardo Traslosheros Hernandez, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Guatemala | 1 June 2016 | HE Mrs Connie Taracena-Secaira, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Peru | 1 June 2016 | HE Mr Miguel Palomino de la Gala, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Greece | 1 June 2016 | HE Mrs Ekaterini Xagorari, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Slovenia | 26 July 2016 | HE Ms Helena Drnovsek Zorko, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Israel | 26 July 2016 | HE Dr Itzhak Gerberg, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Germany | 26 July 2016 | HE Mr Gerhard Thiedemann, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Mauritius | 26 July 2016 | HE Mr Raoul Lewis Patrick Cavalot, High Commissioner, Canberra | |
| Angola | 26 July 2016 | HE Dr Fidelino Loy de Jesus Figueiredo, Ambassador, Singapore | |
| Kuwait | 27 October 2016 | HE Mr Ahmad Salem Alwehaib, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| European Union | 27 October 2016 | HE Mr Bernard Savage, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Italy | 27 October 2016 | HE Mr Fabrizio Marcelli, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Austria | 27 October 2016 | HE Mr Bernhard Zimburg, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Ethiopia | 27 October 2016 | HE Mrs Tirfu Kidanemariam Gebrehewit, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Central African Republic | 27 October 2016 | HE Mr Andre Nzapayeke, Ambassador, Pretoria | |
| Tunisia | 27 October 2016 | HE Mr Nabil Lakhal, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Jordan | 27 October 2016 | HE Mr Ali Kraishan, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Brazil | 24 November 2016 | HE Mr Paulo Cesar de Camargo, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Denmark | 24 November 2016 | HE Mr Tom Norring, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Qatar | 24 November 2016 | HE Mr Nasser bin Hamad Mubarak Al Khalifa, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Botswana | 24 November 2016 | HE Mr Lapologang Caesar Lekoa, High Commissioner, Canberra | |
| Finland | 24 November 2016 | HE Mr Lars Backstrom, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Zambia | 24 November 2016 | HE Mr George Kanyamula Zulu, High Commissioner, Canberra | |
| Ireland | 24 November 2016 | HE Mr Breandan O Caollai, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Tuvalu | 30 January 2017 | HE Mr Paulson Panapa, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| Turkey | 1 February 2017 | HE Mr Ahmet Ergin, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 February 2017 | HE Mr Saleh Ahmad Alsuwaidi, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Rwanda | 1 February 2017 | HE Mr Guillaume Kavaruganda, High Commissioner, Singapore | |
| Morocco | 1 February 2017 | HE Mr Karim Medrek, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Iraq | 1 February 2017 | HE Dr Hussain Al-Ameri, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Niue | 19 April 2017 | HE Hon Fisa Pihigia, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| Chile | 19 April 2017 | HE Mr Rodrigo Espinosa, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Indonesia | 19 April 2017 | HE Tantowi Yahya, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Korea | 19 April 2017 | HE Mr Seung-bae Yeo, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Suriname | 19 April 2017 | HE Dr Lloyd Pinas, Ambassador, Beijing | |
| Senegal | 19 April 2017 | HE Mr Cheikh Niang, Ambassador, Tokyo | |
| Kazakhstan | 19 April 2017 | HE Mr Usen Suleimen, Ambassador, Singapore | |
| United States of America | 28 June 2017 | HE Mr Scott Brown, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Panama | 28 June 2017 | HE Mr Alfredo Alberto Spiegel Aponte, Ambassador, Singapore | |
| Myanmar | 28 June 2017 | HE Mr Tha Aung Nyun, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Belgium | 6 September 2017 | HE Mr Marc Mullie, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 6 September 2017 | HE Mr Mirza Hajric, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Afghanistan | 6 September 2017 | HE Mr Wahidullah Waissi, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Nepal | 21 November 2017 | HE Ms Lucky Sherpa, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Tanzania | 21 November 2017 | HE Mr Mathias Meinrad Chikawe, High Commissioner, Tokyo | |
| Georgia | 21 November 2017 | HE Mr George Dolidze, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Cyprus | 21 November 2017 | HE Mrs Martha Mavrommati, High Commissioner, Canberra | |
| Nigeria | 21 November 2017 | HE Mr Bello Kazaure Husseini, High Commissioner, Canberra | |
| Latvia | 21 November 2017 | HE Ms Dace Treija-Masi, Ambassador, Tokyo | |
| United Kingdom | 29 January 2018 | HE Ms Laura Clarke, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| Vanuatu | 1 February 2018 | HE Mr Johnson Naviti, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| Malaysia | 1 February 2018 | HE Ms Nur Izzah Wong Mee Choo, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| South Africa | 1 February 2018 | HE Ms Vuyiswa Tulelo, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| Ecuador | 1 February 2018 | HE Mr Juan Salazar Sancisi, Ambassador, Canberra | |
| Mauritius | 1 February 2018 | HE Ms Christelle Sohun, High Commissioner, Canberra | |
| Australia | 13 February 2018 | HE Mr Ewen McDonald, High Commissioner, Wellington | |
| China | 11 April 2018 | HE Ms Wu Xi, Ambassador, Wellington | |
| Djibouti | 11 April 2018 | HE Mr Ahmed Araita Ali, Ambassador, Tokyo | |
| Lithuania | 11 April 2018 | HE Mr Gediminas Varvuolis, Ambassador, Tokyo | |
| Bangladesh | 11 April 2018 | HE Mr Mohammad Sufiur Rahman, High Commissioner, Canberra | |