G15
The G15 (short for Group of Fifteen ) was founded on September 4, 1989 in Belgrade ( Yugoslavia ) on the occasion of the ninth Conference of the Non-Aligned States . It should serve the cooperation of these developing countries and give them a common voice at international summits, especially those of the World Trade Organization . The Group of Fifteen consists of countries from North America , South America , Africa and Asia , all of which share the goal of improved growth and prosperity . The working principles relate to cooperation between countries in the fields of investment, trade and technology. In June 2011 there were 17 members without the organization's name changing.
Current member states
North / Central America | continent | |
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Jamaica | Mexico | Country |
approx. 3 million | approx. 113 million | population |
10,991 km² | 1,972,550 km² | surface |
80 | 56 | HDI rank |
Patrick Allen | Enrique Peña Nieto | Head of state |
South America | continent | |||
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Argentina | Brazil | Chile | Venezuela | Country |
approx. 40 million | approx. 191 million | approx. 17 million | approx. 27 million | population |
2,780,400 km² | 8,514,215 km² | 755,696 km² | 916,445 km² | surface |
46 | 73 | 45 | 75 | HDI rank |
Mauricio Macri | Dilma Rousseff | Michelle Bachelet | Nicolás Maduro | Head of state |
Asia | continent | |||
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Indonesia | Iran | Malaysia | Sri Lanka | Country |
approx. 240 million | approx. 74 million | approx. 28 million | approx. 20 million | population |
1,904,569 km² | 1,648,195 km² | 329,758 km² | 65,610 km² | surface |
108 | 70 | 57 | 91 | HDI rank |
Joko Widodo | Ali Khamene'i | Abdul Halim | Maithripala Sirisena | Head of state |
Africa | continent | |||||
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Egypt | Algeria | Kenya | Nigeria | Senegal | Zimbabwe | Country |
approx. 83 million | approx. 32 million | approx. 39 million | approx. 140 million | approx. 12 million | approx. 12 million | population |
1,001,449 km² | 2,381,741 km² | 580,367 km² | 923,768 km² | 196,722 km² | 390,757 km² | surface |
101 | 84 | 128 | 142 | 144 | 169 | HDI rank |
Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi | Abd Bouteflika | Uhuru Kenyatta | Muhammadu Buhari | Macky Sall | Emmerson Mnangagwa | Head of state |
Previous meetings
To meet | Period | Host country | Venue | organizer |
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1 | 1st - 3rd June 1990 | Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | |
2 | 27.-29. November 1991 | Venezuela | Caracas | |
3 | 21-23 November 1992 | Senegal | Dakar | |
4th | 28-30 March 1993 | India | New Delhi | |
5 | 5th-7th November 1995 | Argentina | Buenos Aires | |
6th | 3rd to 5th November 1996 | Zimbabwe | Harare | |
7th | October 28 - November 5, 1997 | Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | |
8th | 11-13 May 1998 | Egypt | Cairo | |
9 | 10-12 February 1999 | Jamaica | Montego Bay | |
10 | 19. – 20. June 2000 | Egypt | Cairo | Husni Mubarak |
11 | 30.-31. May 2001 | Indonesia | Jakarta | |
12 | 27.-28. February 2004 | Venezuela | Caracas | Hugo Chavez |
13 | September 14, 2006 | Cuba | Havana | Raúl Castro |
14th | 15-17 May 2010 | Iran | Tehran | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
15th | 2012 | Sri Lanka | Colombo | Mahinda Rajapaksa |
See also
- United Nations (UN)
- G7
- G8 + 5
- Group of the twenty most important industrialized and emerging countries , amalgamation of industrialized and emerging countries and the European Union (from 1999)
- G20 (developing countries) , association of developing and emerging countries (from 2003)
- G33
Web links
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- ^ Members of the G15 according to the official website ( Memento from April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )