Country Leaders & Politicians
For physical addresses and more details about each country/organization, please see the full list below
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights :
tb-petitions@ohchr.org
Direct e-mails for ministries of foreign affairs :
AUSTRALIA : Stephen.Smith.MP@aph.gov.au
AUSTRIA : kabbm@bmaa.gv.at
BELGIUM : kab.bz@diplobel.fed.be
BRAZIL : webmaster@mre.gov.br
CANADA : enqserv@dfait-maeci.gc.ca
CHILE : rmatus@minrel.gov.cl
DENMARK : um@um.dk
GEORGIA : inform@mfa.gov.ge
GREECE : contact@dorabakoyannis.gr
INDIA : usxps@mea.gov.in
ITALY : relazioni.pubblico@esteri.it
JAPAN : webmaster@mofa.go.jp
KINGDOM OF THAILAND : minister@mfa.go.th
MEXICO : pespinosa@sre.gob.mx
NORWAY : post@mfa.no
PORTUGAL : ministro@mne.gov.pt
REPUBLIC OF KOREA (SOUTH-KOREA) : web@mofat.go.kr
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES : webmaster@dfa.gov.ph
ROMANIA : mae@mae.ro
SUOMI – FINLAND : kirjaamo.um@formin.fi
SWITZERLAND : info@eda.admin.ch
THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT : minexter@idsc1.gov.eg
THE CZECH REPUBLIC : info@mzv.cz
THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA : webmaster@mfa.gov.cn
MACAO : sasg@raem.gov.mo
HONG-KONG : ceo@ceo.gov.hk
FULL LIST:
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights :
Petitions Team
Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights
UNOG-OHCHR
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Fax: +41 22 917 9022
For urgent matters : tb-petitions@ohchr.org
Website, list of contacts – English : LINK
Español : ENLACE
Français : LIEN
(Some pages are also available in Russian, Arabic and Chinese ; choose your language on top left of the page)
European Parliament
Correspondence with Citizens
GOL03A012
L-2929 LUXEMBOURG
Fax : (352) 43 00 27 072
By website : LINK (Choose your language on top of the page)
POPE BENEDICT XVI
His Holiness Benedict XVI
Holy See
City of The Vatican
Website : http://www.vatican.va/
If you write the Pope, also write to :
Comunità di Sant’Egidio
Piazza S. Egidio 3/a
00153 Roma
Italy
E-mail : info@santegidio.org
Website : http://www.santegidio.org/
It is a Catholic community, which works in close cooperation with the Holy See on matters such as the death penalty (they launched a petition for the abolition of the death penalty at the international level).
Foreign ministers & Secretaries of States:
UNITED KINGDOM
The Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Westminster
Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA
Phone : 020 7219 5135
Website : LINK
GERMANY – DEUTSCHLAND
Federal Foreign Office :
Auswärtiges Amt
Werderscher Markt 1, 10117 Berlin
mail address : 11013 Berlin
Telephone : +49/30/5000 0
Email by form – Deutsch : LINK
English : LINK
USA
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Secretary Condoleezza Rice 7th floor : 202-647-5291
Directory of the Department of State : LINK (PDF document)
Main Switchboard : 202-647-4000
TTY : 1-800-877-8339 (Federal Relay Service)
Email by form : LINK
Iran office :
Phone : 647-2520
IRELAND
Minister Dermot Ahern
Department of Foreign Affairs / An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha
80 St. Stephen’s Green / 80 Faiche Stiabhna
Dublin 2 / Baile Átha Cliath 2
Tel/Teil : +353 1 4780822
Email by form : http://193.178.2.96/home/index.aspx?id=8797
AUSTRALIA
The Hon Stephen Smith MP
AUSTRALIAN MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Ministerial Office Parliament House
Canberra
OR
PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Tel: (02) 6277 7500
Fax: (02) 6273 4112
Minister : Stephen.Smith.MP@aph.gov.au
Website : http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/
FRANCE
Monsieur le Ministre des Affaires Etrangères
37 quai d’Orsay
75007 Paris
France
01-43-17-53-53 (numéro en France/inside France)
+33-1-43-17-53-53 (from abroad/depuis l’étranger)
Contact par internet – Français : LIEN
Email by form – English : LINK
CANADA
Enquiries Service (SXCI)
Foreign Affairs Canada
125 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, ON, Canada
K1A 0G2
Phone : 1 800 267-8376 (toll-free in Canada/appel gratuit au Canada)
(613) 944-4000 (in the National Capital Region and outside Canada)
(613) 944-9136 (TTY)
E-mail : enqserv@dfait-maeci.gc.ca
Contact by website – English : LINK
Contact par internet – Français : LIEN
ITALY – ITALIA
Ministero degli Affari Esteri,
Piazzale della Farnesina, 1
00194 Roma
E-mail : relazioni.pubblico@esteri.it
Tel : 06.3691.8899 / +390636911
Fax : 06.3236210
Sito internet – Italiano : http://www.esteri.it/ita/5_30_76.asp?
Website – English : http://www.esteri.it/eng/5_30_76.asp
NORWAY – NORGE
Jonas Gahr Støre
Utenriksminister/Minister of Foreign Affairs
Utenriksdepartementet/Ministry of Foreign Affairs
7. juni-plassen/ Victoria Terrasse
PO box 8114 Dep. N-0032 Oslo
E-mail : post@mfa.no
Telephone : +47 22 24 36 00
Fax : +47 22 24 95 80/81
Email by form – Norsk : LINK
English : LINK
SWEDEN – SVERIGE
Carl Bildt
Utrikesminister/Minister for Foreign Affairs
Utrikesdepartementet/Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Växel/Switchboard : 08-405 10 00/+46 8 405 10 00
Fax : 08-723 11 76/+46 8 723 11 76
Besöksadress/Visitors’ address : Gustav Adolfs torg 1, Stockholm
Postadress/Postal address : SE-103 39 Stockholm
Contact by form – Svenska : LÄNK
English : LINK
DENMARK – DANMARK
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
2, Asiatisk Plads
DK-1448 Copenhagen K
Tel : +45 33 92 00 00
Fax : +45 32 54 05 33
E-mail : um@um.dk
Website – Dansk : http://www.um.dk/da/
English : http://www.um.dk/en
BELGIUM
Karel De Gucht
Ministre des Affaires étrangères/Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken
Rue des Petits Carmes 15/Karmelietenstraat 15
B-1000 Bruxelles/Brussels
Belgique/België
Tel : +32 (0)2.501.85.91 / + 32 (0)2 501 8111
Fax : +32 (0)2.511.63.85
E-mail : kab.bz@diplobel.fed.be
Webform – English : http://www.diplomatie.be/EN/contact/
Vlams : http://www.diplomatie.be/NL/contact/
Français : http://www.diplomatie.be/FR/contact/
Deutsch : http://www.diplomatie.be/DE/contact/
SPAIN – ESPAÑA
D. Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé
MINISTERIO DE ASUNTOS EXTERIORES Y DE COOPERACIÓN
Dirección/Address : Plaza de la Provincia, 1 – 28012 Madrid
Teléfono centralita/Main switchboard : 91 379 97 00
Dirección/Other address (please see website) : Edificio Torres Ágora.
C/ Serrano Galvache, 26- 28033 Madrid
Teléfono centralita/Main switchboard : 91 379 83 00
List of contacts, English/Español : LINK/ENLACE
AGENCIA ESPAÑOLA DE COOPERACIÓN INTERNACIONAL
Dirección/Address : Avda. de los Reyes Católicos, 4 – 28040 Madrid
Teléfonos centralita/Main switchboard :
91 583 81 00 / 91 583 81 01 / 91 583 81 02
THE NETHERLANDS – NEDERLAND
Bernard Bot
Het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken/Ministry of Foreign Affairs
PO Box 20061
2500 EB The Hague
The Netherlands
E-mail by form – Nederlands : Verdragen : LINK
English : Treaties : LINK
Visitor’s Address : Bezuidenhoutseweg 67, The Hague
Telephone : +31 70 3486486
Fax : + 31 70 3484848
Website – Nederlands : http://www.minbuza.nl/nl/contact,index.html
English : http://www.minbuza.nl/en/contact,index.html
AUSTRIA – ÖSTERREICH
Die Bundesministerin (The federal Minister)
PLASSNIK Ursula Dr.iur.
Postanschrift (Mailing address) :
BMaA, Minoritenplatz 8, A-1014 Wien
Standort(e) (Location) :
Minoritenplatz 8 (HG 11), A-1014 Wien
Telefon (aus ganz Österreich) : 05 01150-0
Telefax (aus ganz Österreich) : 05 01159-201
E-Mail : kabbm@bmaa.gv.at
Webform – Deutsch : LINK
English : LINK
THE CZECH REPUBLIC – CESKÉ REPUBLIKY
Karel Schwarzenberg
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Ministerstvo zahranicních vecí Ceské Republiky
Loretánské námestí 5
118 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Tel : +420-224-181-111
E-mail : info@mzv.cz
Contacts – English : LINK
Website – Cesky : http://www.mzv.cz/
HUNGARY – MAGYAR KÖZTÁRSASÁG
Dr. Kinga Göncz
Address : 1027 Budapest, Bem rkp. 47.
Tel : (36-1) 458-1000
Fax : (36-1) 212-5918
Ügyelet : (36-1) 458-1000
Contacts – English : LINK
Website – Magyar : http://www.mfa.gov.hu/kum/hu/bal
ROMANIA
Mihai-Razvan UNGUREANU, PhD
Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Ministerul Afacerilor Externe
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania
Address : Aleea Alexandru nr. 31, Sector 1, 011822 Bucharest
Phone : (40 21) 319.21.08 ; 319.21.25
Fax : (40 21) 319.68.62
E-mail : mae@mae.ro
Contacts – English : LINK
Website – Românã : http://www.mae.ro/index.php?lang=ro
POLAND – POLSKA
ANNA FOTYGA
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
Al. J. Ch. Szucha 23, 00-580 Warsaw tel. (+4822) 523 9000
Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych
Al. J. Ch. Szucha 23, 00-580 Warszawa tel. (+4822) 523 9000
Website – Polski : http://www.msz.gov.pl/index.php?document=1
English : http://www.msz.gov.pl/index.php?document=2
SUOMI – FINLAND
Erkki Tuomioja
Postal address : Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
P.O. Box 176, 00161 Helsinki, Finland
Postiosoite : Ulkoasiainministeriö, PL 176, 00161 Helsinki
Postadress : Utrikesministeriet, PO Box 176, 00161 Helsingfors
E-mail : kirjaamo.um@formin.fi
Tel : Switchboard +358-9-160 05 or 578 15
24-hour service +358-9-1605 5555
Fax : +358-9-629 840 or 1605 5799
Websites :
English : LINK
Suomi : LINK
Svenska : LÄNK
Human rights page :
En : LINK
Su : LINK
Sv : LÄNK
SWITZERLAND
President of the Swiss Confederation/
Bundespräsidentin/
Présidente de la Confédération/
Presidente della Confederazione
Micheline Calmy-Rey
Eidgenössisches Departement für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Bundeshaus
CH-3003 Bern
Département fédéral des affaires étrangères
Palais fédéral
CH-3003 Berne
Departimento federale degli affari esteri
Palazzo federale
CH-3003 Berna
Tél : +41 (0)31 322 21 11
Fax : +41 (0)31 324 90 47
Central e-mail of the EDA/DFAE : info@eda.admin.ch
Staatssekretariat/Secrétariat d’Etat/Segreteria di Stato
Michael Ambühl
E-mail : staatsekretariat@eda.admin.ch
Tel : +41 (0)31 322 30 52
Website – English : http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/home.html
Deutsch : http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/de/home.html
Français : http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/fr/home.html
Italiano : http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/it/home.html
INDIA
Shri Pranab Mukherjee
External Affairs Minister
South Block
Ministry of External Affairs
New Delhi – 110011
E-mail : usxps@mea.gov.in
Website – Hindi/English : http://meaindia.nic.in/
THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Li Zhaoxing
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
No. 2, Chaoyangmen Nandajie
Chaoyang District
Beijing, 100701
Tel : 86-10-65961114
E-mail : webmaster@mfa.gov.cn
Website – Chinese (simplified) : LINK
Chinese (traditional) : LINK
English : LINK
MACAU – MACAO
Edmund Ho Hau Wah
Chief Executive
Office of the Chief Executive
Avenida da Praia Grande
Sede do Governo da RAEM
MACAU
Tel : 2872 6886
Fax : 2872 5468, 2872 6168
E-mail of the Chief of Office, Ho Veng On : sasg@raem.gov.mo
Orgânica do Governo/Directory of the Government – Chinese/English : LINK
Sítio de Internet & Contacto/
Website & Contact – Chinese/Português/English : LIGAÇÃO/LINK
HONG-KONG
Donald Tsang Yam-kuen
Chief Executive
Office of the Chief Executive
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
People’s Republic of China
Government House
Hong Kong
Tel : (852) 2878 3300
Fax : (852) 2509 0577
Email : ceo@ceo.gov.hk
Website – Chinese (traditional) : LINK
Chinese (simplified) : LINK
English : LINK
JAPAN
Taro Aso
Minister for Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Kasumigaseki 2-2-1
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100-8919
Japan
E-mail : webmaster@mofa.go.jp
Tel : +81- (0) 3-3580-3311
Website – Japanese : http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/
English : http://www.mofa.go.jp/
REPUBLIC OF KOREA (SOUTH-KOREA)
Song Min-soon
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
95-1 Doryum-dong Jongno-gu
Seoul
110-787 Republic of Korea
Tel : 2100-7002 – 4, 02.2100-2114, (82-2)3703-2114
Fax : 02.2100-7999
E-mail : web@mofat.go.kr
Website – Korean : http://www.mofat.go.kr/mofat/index.jsp
English : http://www.mofat.go.kr/me/index.jsp
KINGDOM OF THAILAND
Mr. Nitya Pibulsonggram
Minister of Foreign Affairs
443 Sri Ayudhya Rd.
Bangkok 10400
Thailand
Tel : (662) 643-5333
Tel – Fax : (662) 643-5320
Switchboard : (662) 643-5000
E-mail : minister@mfa.go.th
Website – Thai : http://www.mfa.go.th/web/37.php
English : http://www.mfa.go.th/web/1.php
THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT
H.E. Mr. Ahmed Aboul Gheit
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Masbero-Kornish
El Nile St.
Cairo
Tel : 5746862, 5746861, 5749820
Fax : 5747839, 5749533, 5748822
E-mail : minexter@idsc1.gov.eg – info@mfa.gov.eg
Website – Arabic : LINK
English : LINK
Français : LIEN
The Minister – Arabic : LINK
English : LINK
ARGENTINA
Canciller/Chancellor : Jorge Enrique Taiana
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto
Esmeralda 1212.
(1007) Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires.
Tel : (54–11) 4819–7000
Sitio de internet/Website – Spanish/Español : ENLACE/LINK
Acceso a la información – Cancillería Argentina/Access to information –
Chancellery of Argentina – Spanish/Español : ENLACE/LINK
Gobierno argentino – Contáctenos/Government of Argentina –
Contact us – Spanish/Español : ENLACE/LINK
Acerca del Gobierno/Composition of the government
& addresses – Spanish/Español : ENLACE/LINK
CHILE
Alejandro Foxley Rioseco
Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile
Teatinos 180
Santiago
Chile
Fono/Phone : (56-2) 6794200, 800730073
Jefe de Gabinete/Head of Cabinet :
Consejero Roberto Matus Harris
E-mail : rmatus@minrel.gov.cl
Contáctenos/Contact us – Spanish/Español : ENLACE/LINK
Sitio de internet/Website – Spanish/Español : ENLACE/LINK
SOME SPECIFIC ABOLITIONIST COUNTRIES
PORTUGAL – Long abolitionist tradition : last execution 1849 ;
Last execution of a woman : 1763
Luís Amado
Minister of State and for Foreign Affairs
Palácio das Necessidades
Largo do Rilvas
1399-030 Lisboa
Tel : 213 946 000
Fax : 213 946 070
E-mail : ministro@mne.gov.pt
Website/Sítio de Internet – Portuguese/Português : www.min-nestrangeiros.pt
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation :
João Gomes Cravinho
Address : Palácio das Necessidades,
Largo do Rilvas – 1399-030 Lisboa
Tel : 213 946 000
Fax : 213 946 054
E-mail : senec@mne.gov.pt
Contacts – Português : LIGAÇÃO
English : LINK
GREECE – HELLENIC REPUBLIC – Death penalty abolished in 2004
Ms Dora Bakoyannis
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1st Vas. Sofias Av.
106 71 Athens
Greece
Private Office : +30 210.368.1800, +30 210.368.1810/1811/1820
Fax : +30 210.368.1433
Direct e-mail to Ms. Bakoyannis : contact@dorabakoyannis.gr
Contact Ms. Bakoyannis – Greek : LINK
Special Counsellors to the Minister :
Mr Savvaidis, Mr Agathocles, Mr Skopelitis : +30 210.368.3330
Deputy Ministers for Foreign Affairs :
Mr. Valinakis, Mr. Stylianidis, Mr. Kassimis (See directory below)
E-mail by webform – Greek : LINK
English : LINK
Français : LIEN
Full directory for Foreign Affairs – Greek : LINK
English : LINK
Diplomatic Cabinet of the President of the Republic
Mr. Theodoros Passas, Embassy Counsellor A’
Tel : +30 210.724.4834, +30 210.728.3254
Fax : +30 210.723.2311, +30 210.725.8620
TURKEY (Republic of Turkey/Türkiye Cumhuriyeti)
Death penalty abolished by Constitution : 21 July 2004
Ali Babacan
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Balgat
06100 Ankara
Turkey
Tel : (0312) 292 10 00
Website – Türkçe : http://www.mfa.gov.tr/mfa_tr
(Click on top right of the page to view the page in English)
REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN)
Informal moratorium on death penalty by President Chen Shui-bian
Mr. James C. F. Huang
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (TAIWAN)
2 Kaitakelan Blvd. Taipei, 100, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Tel : +886-2-2348-2999
Website – Chinese : LINK
English : LINK
Form with tracking of the processing – Chinese : LINK
English : LINK
President : Chen Shui-bian
Office of the President, Republic of China (Taiwan)
122, Chungking S. Rd., Sec.1, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Tel : +886-2-23113731
Website – Chinese : http://www.president.gov.tw/
English : http://www.president.gov.tw/en/
Form with tracking of the processing : Write to the President
BRAZIL – BRASIL – Last execution in 1855
Celso Amorim
Ministry of External Relations/Ministério das Relações Exteriores
Ministério das Relações Exteriores
Palácio Itamaraty – Esplanada dos Ministérios – Bloco H
Brasília/DF – Brasil
CEP : 70170-900
E-mail : webmaster@mre.gov.br
Contact – Português : LIGAÇÃO
English : LINK
MEXICO – Death penalty abolished in 1961
Abolition written in Constitution in 2005
Always intervene internationally when a Mexican National is
sentenced to death in another country.
EMB. PATRICIA ESPINOSA CANTELLANO (SEM)
Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores/Secretary of External Relations
Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores
Plaza Juárez No. 20
Piso 22
Colonia Centro
Deleg. Cuauhtémoc
C.P. 06010, México, D.F.
Fonos directos/Direct phones : 3686-6036, 3686-6042
Fax : 3686-6028
Correo electrónico/E-mail : pespinosa@sre.gob.mx
Conmutador/Main Switchboard : 3686-5100
Sitio de internet – Español : http://www.sre.gob.mx/
Website – English : http://www.sre.gob.mx/english/
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
Second most recent abolitionist country in the world :
death penalty abolished in 2006
DR. ALBERTO G. ROMULO
Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines
Department of Foreign Affairs
2330 Roxas Boulevard
Pasay City
Philippines
Tel : 834-3000 / 834-4000 (Trunk Lines) – Fax : 832-0683
E-mail : webmaster@dfa.gov.ph
Website : http://www.dfa.gov.ph/index.html
President : Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Mailing Address :
Malacañang Palace
JP Laurel Street, San Miguel, Manila NCR 1005
E-mail by form : http://www.op.gov.ph/contact.asp
GEORGIA
Most recent abolitionist country in the world :
death penalty abolished by Constitution : 10 January 2007
Gela Bezhuashvili
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia
Sh. Chitadze #4
Tbilisi
Tel : (995) 284 747
Fax : (995) 284 678
E-Mail : inform@mfa.gov.ge
Website – Georgian : http://www.mfa.gov.ge/index.php?lang_id=GEO
English : http://www.mfa.gov.ge/index.php?lang_id=ENG
President : Mikheil Saakashvili
Administration of the President, 7 Igoroqva St. Index 0134, Tbilisi
Tel : 99-53-74; 99-62-94
Fax : 99-58-96
E-mail, Head of Administration : otari@president.gov.ge
E-mail, Secretariat of the President : nkasradze@admin.gov.ge
How to write a letter to the President of Georgia – Georgian : LINK
English : LINK
Government of Georgia :
Hotline : 92 25 88; 92 25 89; 92 26 85; 92 13 91
Many thanks to Vincent Maunoury and Kristian Hvesser for compilation of this document.
