This is a list of diplomatic missions of Iceland. Iceland has a very small network of diplomatic missions. However, it has a Consulate General in Winnipeg, serving the large number of Manitobans with Icelandic heritage, and was the first state, in 2007, to open a Diplomatic Mission (Consulate General) in Tórshavn in the autonomous Faroe Islands, due to the close relations Iceland enjoys with the islands; historically, economically and culturally.
In 2001 Iceland took the unique step of opening its first Embassy in Africa in Maputo, Mozambique, but later moved its Ambassador to Pretoria, where it opened a new Embassy and from where the Ambassador is accredited to Mozambique. The Embassy in Maputo is since then headed by a Chargé d'Affaires. The only other non-African state to open its first Embassy in Africa in Mozambique is Timor-Leste.
Iceland has two separate Missions in both Brussels and New York. In Brussels, the Embassy also functions as a Mission to the European Union, but a separate Delegation, accredited to NATO, is housed elsewhere. In New York City, Iceland has a Permanent Mission to the UN and separately, a Consulate General where the trade representative to the US and Canada also has offices.
The embassies in Italy, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka and Uganda are all headed by Chargés d'Affaires.
Because of the recent financial crisis, Iceland has announced it is closing its Embassies in Pretoria, South Africa, and will close down its embassies in Italy, Nicaragua, and Sri Lanka, in 2009, in the wake of budgetary cuts[1][2].
Europe
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Austria
- Vienna (Embassy)
Belgium
- Brussels (Embassy and Mission)
Denmark
- Copenhagen (Embassy)
- Tórshavn (Consulate-General)
Finland
- Helsinki (Embassy)
France
- Paris (Embassy)
Germany
- Berlin (Embassy)
Italy
- Rome (Embassy)
Norway
- Oslo (Embassy)
Russia
- Moscow (Embassy)
Sweden
- Stockholm (Embassy)
United Kingdom
- London (Embassy)
North America
Canada
Nicaragua
- Managua (Embassy - will close 1 August 2009)
United States
- Washington DC (Embassy)
- New York (Consulate-General)
Africa
Malawi
- Lilongwe (Embassy)
Mozambique
- Maputo (Embassy)
Namibia
- Windhoek (Embassy - closing in 2009)
Uganda
- Kampala (Embassy)
Asia
People's Republic of China
- Beijing (Embassy)
India
- New Delhi (Embassy)
Japan
- Tokyo (Embassy)
Sri Lanka
- Colombo (Embassy - closing in 2009)
Multilateral Organisations
- Brussels (Permanent Mission to the European Union) [3]
- Brussels (Delegation to NATO, also WEU and OPCW; separate from the Embassy in Brussels)[4]
- Geneva (Permanent Mission to EFTA, WTO, the UNOG and international organizations)[5]
- New York (Permanent Mission to the United Nations)
- Paris (Permanent Mission to OECD and UNESCO)
- Rome (Permanent Mission to FAO, WFP and IFAD)
- Strasbourg (Permanent Mission to the Council of Europe)
- Vienna (Permanent Mission to OSCE, UNOV, IAEA and CTBTO)