G15

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G15 countries

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
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
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
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
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
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

• Official website
• Various international groups

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1. ^ Members of the G15 according to the official website ( Memento from April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )