Order of precedence
Order of Precedence among Heads of Diplomatic Missions as at
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| Samoa | 17 April 2012 | HE Mr Leasi Papali'i Tommy Scanlan, High Commissioner, Wellington, and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps |
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| Jamaica | 2 December 2014 | HE Mr Clement Philip Ricardo Allcock, High Commissioner, Tokyo | ||
| Malta | 3 December 2014 | HE Mr Charles Muscat, High Commissioner, Canberra | ||
| Papua New Guinea | 2 March 2015 | HE Brigadier General (Rtd) Francis Agwi, CSM, CBE, DMS, High Commissioner, Wellington | ||
| Romania | 3 June 2015 | HE Mrs Nineta Barbulescu, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Algeria | 2 September 2015 | HE Mr Abdelaziz Lahiouel, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Fiji | 26 November 2015 | HE Mr Filimone Waqabaca, High Commissioner, Wellington | ||
| Mongolia | 10 February 2016 | HE Mr Batlai Chuluunhuu, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| 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 | ||
| Israel | 26 July 2016 | HE Dr Itzhak Gerberg, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Kuwait | 27 October 2016 | HE Mr Ahmad Salem Alwehaib, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Ethiopia | 27 October 2016 | HE Mrs Tirfu Kidanemariam Gebrehewit, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Central African Republic | 27 October 2016 | HE Mr Andre Nzapayeke, Ambassador, Pretoria | ||
| Jordan | 27 October 2016 | HE Mr Ali Kraishan, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Brazil | 24 November 2016 | HE Mr Paulo Cesar de Camargo, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Tuvalu | 30 January 2017 | HE Mr Paulson Panapa, High Commissioner, Wellington | ||
| Turkey | 1 February 2017 | HE Mr Ahmet Ergin, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Morocco | 1 February 2017 | HE Mr Karim Medrek, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Niue | 19 April 2017 | HE Hon Fisa Pihigia, High Commissioner, Wellington | ||
| Indonesia | 19 April 2017 | HE Tantowi Yahya, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Suriname | 19 April 2017 | HE Dr Lloyd Pinas, Ambassador, Beijing | ||
| Senegal | 19 April 2017 | HE Mr Cheikh Niang, Ambassador, Tokyo | ||
| 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 | ||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 6 September 2017 | HE Mr Mirza Hajric, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Afghanistan | 6 September 2017 | HE Mr Wahidullah Waissi, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Tanzania | 21 November 2017 | HE Mr Mathias Meinrad Chikawe, High Commissioner, Tokyo | ||
| Georgia | 21 November 2017 | HE Mr George Dolidze, Ambassador, 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Viet Nam | 12 June 2018 | HE Mr Ta Van Thong, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Spain | 12 June 2018 | HE Mr Fernando Curcio Ruigomez, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Russia | 29 August 2018 | HE Mr Georgii Zuev, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Netherlands | 29 August 2018 | HE Mrs Mira Woldberg, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Ireland | 29 August 2018 | HE Mr Peter Ryan, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Lao PDR | 29 August 2018 | HE Mr Sisavath Inphachanh, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Thailand | 18 October 2018 | HE Mr Danai Menabodhi, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| France | 18 October 2018 | HE Mrs Slyvaine Carta-Le Vert, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Japan | 18 October 2018 | HE Mr Hiroyasu Kobayashi, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Ukraine | 27 November 2018 | HE Mr Dmytro Senik, Ambassador, Singapore | ||
| Ghana | 27 November 2018 | HE Mr Edwin Nii Adjei, High Commissioner, Canberra | ||
| Mozambique | 27 November 2018 | HE Mr Jose Maria De Morais, High Commissioner, Tokyo | ||
| Mauritania | 27 November 2018 | HE Mr El Hacen Eleyatt, Ambassador, Tokyo | ||
| Malawi | 27 November 2018 | HE Mr Grenenger Kidney Msulira Banda, High Commissioner, Tokyo | ||
| Qatar | 27 November 2018 | HE Mr Saad Abdulla Al Mahmoud Al Shareef, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Slovenia | 27 November 2018 | HE Mr Jurij Rifelj, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Cook Islands | 12 December 2018 | HE Mrs Elizabeth Wright-Koteka, High Commissioner, Wellington | ||
| Zambia | 31 January 2019 | HE Mr Frank Bwalya, High Commissioner, Canberra | ||
| Saudi Arabia | 31 January 2019 | HE Mr Abdulrahman Al Suhaibani, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Benin | 31 January 2019 | HE Mr Makarimi Abissola Adechoubou, Ambassador, Tokyo | ||
| Lebanon | 31 January 2019 | HE Mr Milad Raad, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Iceland | 31 January 2019 | HE Mrs Kristin Arnadottir, Ambassador, Reykjavik | ||
| Norway | 31 January 2019 | HE Mr Paul Gulleik Larsen, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Australia | 19 March 2019 | HE Hon Patricia Forsythe, High Commissioner, Wellington | ||
| Peru | 18 April 2019 | HE Mr Javier Augusto Prado Miranda, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Brunei | 18 April 2019 | HE Mr Zakaria Ahmad, High Commissioner, Canberra | ||
| Portugal | 18 April 2019 | HE Mr Antonio Pedro da Vinha Rodrigues da Silva, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Lesotho | 18 April 2019 | HE Major General Lineo Bernard Poopa, High Commissioner, Kuala Lumpur | ||
| Croatia | 18 April 2019 | HE Ms Betty Pavelich Sirois, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Czech Republic | 18 April 2019 | HE Mr Tomas Dub, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| The Bahamas | 26 June 2019 | HE Mr Mark Holowesko, High Commissioner, The Bahamas | ||
| Holy See | 27 June 2019 | HE Archbishop Novatus Rugambwa, Apostolic Nuncio, Wellington | ||
| Uganda | 27 June 2019 | HE Professor Joyce Kakuramatsi Kikafunda, High Commissioner, Canberra | ||
| India | 30 July 2019 | HE Mr Mukdesh Kumar Pardeshi, High Commissioner, Wellington | ||
| Singapore | 22 August 2019 | HE Mr Sudesh Maniar, High Commissioner, Wellington | ||
| Germany | 22 August 2019 | HE Mr Stefan Krawielicki, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Slovak Republic | 22 August 2019 | HE Mr Tomas Ferko, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Switzerland | 12 November 2019 | HE Mr Michael Winzap, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Mexico | 12 November 2019 | HE Mr Alfredo Rogerio Perez Bravo, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Egypt | 12 November 2019 | HE Mrs Dina Farouk El Sehy, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Timor Leste | 12 November 2019 | HE Mr Lisualdo Menezes Coimbra Gaspar, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Cuba | 12 November 2019 | HE Mr Edgardo Valdes Lopez, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Belarus | 12 November 2019 | HE Dr Ruslan Esin, Ambassador, Tokyo | ||
| Bahrain | 12 November 2019 | HE Dr Mohamed Ghassan Mohamed Adnan Shaikho, Ambassador, Jakarta | ||
| European Union | 29 January 2020 | HE Mrs Nina Obermaier, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Iran | 29 January 2020 | HE Dr Mohammad Reza Mofatteh, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Maldives | 29 January 2020 | HE Dr Abdulla Mausoom, Ambassador, Singapore | ||
| Sweden | 29 January 2020 | HE Mr Henrik Cederin, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Estonia | 29 January 2020 | HE Mrs Kersti Eesmaa, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Kazakhstan | 30 June 2020 | HE Mr Arken Arystanov, Ambassador, Singapore | ||
| Colombia | 30 June 2020 | HE Mr Alberto Jose Mejia Ferrero, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Nepal | 30 June 2020 | HE Mr Mahesh Raj Dahal, Ambassador, Canberra | ||
| Rwanda | 30 June 2020 | HE Mr Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye, High Commissioner, Singapore | ||
| Korea | 30 June 2020 | HE Mr Sang-jin Lee, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Chile | 5 November 2020 | HE Mr Ignacio Llanos, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Pakistan | 5 November 2020 | HE Mr Murad Ashraf Janjua, High Commissioner, Wellington | ||
| Poland | 5 November 2020 | HE Mr Grzegorz Kowal, Ambassador, Wellington | ||
| Italy | 5 November 2020 | HE Mr Francesco Calogero, Ambassador, Wellington | ||