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Head of State

Head of government or state · National government

Head of State is an entity of interest. It has not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Position				[sources]
Name	Head of State · Head of State of the Independent State of Samoa				[sources]
Country	Samoa				[sources]
Subnational jurisdiction name or code	not available				[sources]
Last change	2025-08-14	Last processed	2025-10-21	First seen	2023-08-16

Relationships

Position holders
Holder	Start date	End date
Va'aletoa Sualauvi II Politician	2017-07-21	-
Va'aletoa Sualauvi II Politician

Data sources

UN Heads of State, Heads of Government and Ministers for Foreign Affairs1,072

The UN's list of senior government officials in all of its member states.

DGACM

US CIA World Leaders11,035

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions549,192

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: unprot-8b90513850a586eeedb1eddb43963b6e51fbe90a · unprot-8a39fc99a010b899195c74d46a1947ff820184e5 · us-cia-c4bf275650761fdc75d261bd6948c821c79b9722

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