Foreign relations of Niue

On 19 October 1974, Niue entered into free association agreement with New Zealand. Under the Niue Constitution Act, the state would remain part of the Realm of New Zealand and would recognise the Monarch of New Zealand as its head of state. ^[2] Under the arrangement, New Zealand also retains a constitutional link with Niue in relation to citizenship, with people from Niue being citizens of New Zealand.^[3][2] Per the Niue Constitution Act, New Zealand provides economic and administrative assistance to Niue as well as assistance in foreign affairs, defence and security at the request of the Niuean Government.^[1]

The Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs records that in 1988 "New Zealand stated ... that its future participation in international agreements would no longer extend to ... Niue".^[4] Niue was granted membership of UNESCO in 1993 and the World Health Organization in 1994. Also in 1994, the United Nations Secretariat "recognized the full treaty-making capacity ... of Niue".^[4]

List of countries with which Niue maintains diplomatic relations:

#	Country	Date
1	New Zealand	2 August 1993[5]
2	Malaysia	30 January 1996[6]
3	China	12 December 2007[7][8]
4	Singapore	6 August 2012[9]
5	India	30 August 2012[10]
6	Thailand	27 August 2013[11]
—	Cook Islands	2013[12]
7	Australia	27 February 2014[13]
8	Turkey	7 June 2014[14]
9	Cuba	5 September 2014[15]
10	Papua New Guinea	9 December 2014[16]
—	Kosovo	23 June 2015[17]
11	Japan	4 August 2015[18]
12	Italy	12 September 2015[19]
13	Brazil	2 September 2016[20]
14	Indonesia	12 July 2019[21]
15	Peru	3 July 2020[22]
16	Chile	6 July 2021[23]
17	Tuvalu	11 July 2022[24]
18	Philippines	27 September 2022[25]
19	South Korea	29 May 2023[26]
20	Israel	1 August 2023[27]
21	Switzerland	9 August 2023[28]
22	Canada	12 September 2023[29]
23	United States	25 September 2023[30]
24	Fiji	7 November 2023[31]
25	Marshall Islands	26 August 2024[32]
26	Germany	3 February 2026[33]
27	France	Unknown[34][35]
28	Nauru	Unknown[36]
29	Samoa	Unknown[37]

• ACP, AOSIS, ESCAP (associate), FAO, IFAD, OPCW, Pacific Islands Forum, Sparteca, SPC, UNESCO, WHO, WMO
• Commonwealth of Nations - Niue is a part of the Commonwealth, but is not a member state, being a dependency of New Zealand, whose Commonwealth membership covers Niue, Cook Islands, and Tokelau, as well as New Zealand itself.
• In November 2011, Niue was one of the eight founding members of Polynesian Leaders Group, a regional grouping intended to cooperate on a variety of issues including culture and language, education, responses to climate change, and trade and investment.^[43][44][45]

• Biodiversity Convention and its Cartagena Protocol, Cotonou Agreement, POPs Project, UNCCD, UNCLOS, UNFCCC and its Kyoto protocol