Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government in which countries the UK does not have a permanent diplomatic presence.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has a network of 281 officially designated overseas Posts. It does not currently have a permanent diplomatic presence in the countries listed below. However, the list includes countries in which we have officially designated Posts which are temporarily suspended in country and our mission to that country operates elsewhere for political or operational reasons (Afghanistan, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Yemen) or have diplomatic staff who are not in permanent residence (Haiti, Burundi, Gabon). Locations defined as UK territories are excluded. Information about the FCDO overseas network is available at www.gov.uk/government/publications/list-of-foreign-office-posts.

• Afghanistan(1)
• Andorra
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi(2)
• Cape Verde
• Central African Republic
• Comoros
• Congo
• Dominica
• East Timor
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon(2)
• Guinea-Bissau
• Haiti(2)
• Honduras
• Kiribati
• Liechtenstein
• Marshall Islands
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Monaco
• Nauru
• Nicaragua
• North Korea(1)
• Palau
• St Kitts and Nevis
• San Marino
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Sudan(1)
• Suriname
• Syria(1)
• Togo
• Tuvalu
• Yemen(1)

Key:

(1) Temporarily suspended

(2) Diplomats not in permanent residence