GROUP OF 77

The 'Group of 77' at the United Nations is a loose coalition of developing nations, designed to promote its members' collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations. There were 77 founding members of the organization, but the organization has since expanded to 130 member countries. It is modelled on the Group of 7, which now contains 8 countries.
The group was founded on June 15 1964 by the "Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Countries" issued at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The first major meeting was in Algiers in 1967, where the ''Charter of Algiers'' was adopted and the basis for permanent institutional structures was begun. There are ''Chapters of the Group of 77'' in Rome (FAO), Vienna (UNIDO), Paris (UNESCO), Nairobi (UNEP) and the Group of 24 in Washington, D.C. (IMF and World Bank).

Contents

Members

Presiding Countries

See also

External links

Members

# Afghanistan
# Algeria
# Angola
# Antigua and Barbuda
# Argentina
# Bahamas
# Bahrain
# Bangladesh
# Barbados
# Belize
# Benin
# Bhutan
# Bolivia
# Bosnia and Herzegovina
# Botswana
# Brazil
# Brunei Darussalam
# Burkina Faso
# Burundi
# Cambodia
# Cameroon
# Cape Verde
# Central African Republic
# Chad
# Chile
# People's Republic of China
# Colombia
# Comoros
# Congo, Democratic Republic of the (Kinshasa)
# Congo, Republic of the (Brazzaville)
# Costa Rica
# Côte d'Ivoire
# Cuba
# Djibouti
# Dominica
# Dominican Republic
# East Timor
# Ecuador
# Egypt
# El Salvador
# Equatorial Guinea
# Eritrea
# Ethiopia
# Fiji
# Gabon
# Gambia
# Ghana
# Grenada
# Guatemala
# Guinea
# Guinea-Bissau
# Guyana
# Haiti
# Honduras
# India
# Indonesia
# Iran
# Iraq
# Jamaica
# Jordan
# Kenya
# Kuwait
# Laos
# Lebanon
# Lesotho
# Liberia
# Libya
# Madagascar
# Malawi
# Malaysia
# Maldives
# Mali
# Marshall Islands
# Mauritania
# Mauritius
# Micronesia, Federated States of
# Mongolia
# Morocco
# Mozambique
# Myanmar
# Namibia
# Nepal
# Nicaragua
# Niger
# Nigeria
# North Korea
# Oman
# Pakistan
# Palestine
# Panama
# Papua New Guinea
# Paraguay
# Peru
# Philippines
# Qatar
# Romania
# Rwanda
# Saint Kitts and Nevis
# Saint Lucia
# Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
# Samoa
# São Tomé and Príncipe
# Saudi Arabia
# Senegal
# Seychelles
# Sierra Leone
# Singapore
# Solomon Islands
# Somalia
# South Africa
# Sri Lanka
# Sudan
# Suriname
# Swaziland
# Syria
# Tanzania
# Thailand
# Togo
# Tonga
# Trinidad and Tobago
# Tunisia
# Turkmenistan
# Uganda
# United Arab Emirates
# Uruguay
# Vanuatu
# Venezuela
# Vietnam
# Yemen
# Zambia
# Zimbabwe

Presiding Countries

★ India (1970-1971)

★ Peru (1971-1972)

★ Egypt (1972-1973)

★ Iran (1973-1974)

★ Mexico (1974-1975)

★ Madagascar (1975-1976)

★ Pakistan (1976-1977)

★ Jamaica (1977-1978)

★ Tunisia (1978-1979)

★ India (1979-1980)

★ Venezuela (1980-1981)

★ Algeria (1981-1982)

★ Bangladesh (1982-1983)

★ Mexico (1983-1984)

★ Egypt (1984-1985)

★ Yugoslavia (1985-1986)

★ Guatemala (1987)

★ Tunisia (1988)

★ Malaysia (1989)

★ Bolivia (1990)

★ Ghana (1991)

★ Pakistan (1992)

★ Colombia (1993)

★ Algeria (1994)

★ Philippines (1995)

★ Costa Rica (1996)

★ Tanzania (1997)

★ Indonesia (1998)

★ Guyana (1999)

★ Nigeria (2000)

★ Iran (2001)

★ Venezuela (2002)

★ Morocco (2003)

★ Qatar (2004)

★ Jamaica (2005)

★ South Africa (2006)

★ Pakistan (2007)

See also

★ Non-Aligned Movement

★ Third World

External links

★ Group of 77 official website

★ Adam Sneyd, "Group of 77", in Globalization and Autonomy Online Compendium, edited by William D. Coleman and Nancy Johnson