Group of 77
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English name | The Group of 77 |
Organization type | loose association |
status | active |
Seat of the organs |
New York City , New York , United States |
Chair | Palestine (2019) |
Member States | 134 |
Official and working languages |
English |
founding |
1964 |
Upper organization | |
g77.org |
The group of 77 (G 77) is a loose association of states, most of which are counted among the Third World countries .
The association was founded in 1964 during the first World Trade Conference ( UNCTAD ) and now has 134 members (as of May 2015). This makes it the largest group within the United Nations in terms of number of countries. One of the member countries always holds the chairmanship for one year. It represents the highest political level in the organizational structure of the G 77. The rotation takes place on a regional basis between Africa, Asia / Pacific and Latin America & the Caribbean.
The loose association results in a relatively weak institutionalization: an annual ministerial meeting in New York takes the fundamental decisions, which are passed on by a coordinating committee to regional subgroups in Geneva , Nairobi , Paris , Rome and Vienna .
The main goal of the G 77 is, on the one hand, to strengthen South-South cooperation and, on the other, to improve the position of the developing countries on the world market. That is why it coordinates the positions and demands of the members in order to achieve a stronger negotiating position at the world trade conferences.
The group drafts joint declarations on development policy and global economic issues such as the “Charter of Economic Rights of the Third World” and starts its own trade and economic policy programs, e. B. the Global System of Trade Preferences Among Developing Countries (GSTP).
Yugoslavia, Malta, Romania and Cyprus originally belonged to the member states. Malta, Romania and Cyprus each left when they joined the EU. After the dissolution of Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina remained in this group as the only European country to this day.
In 2014, Bolivia presided and, in addition to the regular meetings, also organized extraordinary summits in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in order to advance its development policy agenda more effectively. This was followed by the presidency of South Africa in 2015 .
Members
- Afghanistan
- Egypt
- Algeria
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Equatorial Guinea
- Argentina
- Ethiopia
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Chile
- China
- Costa Rica
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Djibouti
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Ivory Coast
- Eritrea
- Fiji
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Iran
- Jamaica
- Yemen
- Jordan
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Qatar
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cuba
- Kuwait
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Morocco
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Mongolia
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Oman
- East Timor
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Syria
- Rwanda
- Solomon Islands
- Zambia
- Samoa
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Zimbabwe
- Singapore
- Somalia
- Sri Lanka
- St. Kitts and Nevis
- St. Lucia
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- South Africa
- Sudan
- South Sudan
- Surinam
- Swaziland
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Chad
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- Uruguay
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- United Arab Emirates
- Vietnam
- Central African Republic
Chair
Chair of the Group of 77 in New York :
- 1970-71 - India
- 1971-72 - Peru
- 1972-73 - Egypt
- 1973-74 - Iran
- 1974-75 - Mexico
- 1975-76 - Madagascar
- 1976-77 - Pakistan
- 1977-78 - Jamaica
- 1978–79 - Tunisia
- 1979-80 - India
- 1980-81 - Venezuela
- 1981–82 - Algeria
- 1982-83 - Bangladesh
- 1983-84 - Mexico
- 1984-85 - Egypt
- 1985–86 - Yugoslavia
- 1987 - Guatemala
- 1988 - Tunisia
- 1989 - Malaysia
- 1990 - Bolivia
- 1991 - Ghana
- 1992 - Pakistan
- 1993 - Colombia
- 1994 - Algeria
- 1995 - Philippines
- 1996 - Costa Rica
- 1997 - Tanzania
- 1998 - Indonesia
- 1999 - Guyana
- 2000 - Nigeria
- 2001 - Iran
- 2002 - Venezuela
- 2003 - Morocco
- 2004 - Qatar
- 2005 - Jamaica
- 2006 - South Africa
- 2007 - Pakistan
- 2008 - Antigua and Barbuda
- 2009 - Sudan
- 2010 - Yemen
- 2011 - Argentina
- 2012 - Algeria
- 2013 - Fiji
- 2014 - Bolivia
- 2015 - South Africa
- 2016 - Thailand
- 2017 - Ecuador
- 2018 - Egypt
- 2019 - Palestine
See also
- UN - the United Nations
- G7
- g7 + (group of so-called "fallen states")
- G8 + 5 , outreach countries / O5 countries (largest emerging countries)
- G15 (developing countries)
- G20 (a group of industrialized and emerging countries)
- G20 of developing countries (a group of developing and emerging countries)
- Group of 24
- G33 (one group each of industrialized / emerging countries and developing countries)
- Group of Two (G2), the connection between the two largest economies, the People's Republic of China and the USA
Web links
- Official website of the Group of Seventy-Seven
- Database of content-related literature on the social, political and economic situation in the 77
Individual evidence
- ↑ Palestine takes over the chairmanship of the UN group In: Israelnetz.de , July 30, 2018, accessed on August 5, 2018.