Members
As of 2012, the group comprises all of UN members (along with the Palestinian Authority) - excluding the following:
- All Council of Europe members (with the exception of Bosnia and Herzegovina);
- All Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development members (with the exception of Chile);
- All Commonwealth of Independent States (full) members (with the exception of Tajikistan);
- Three microstates: Kiribati, Palau and Tuvalu.
On the map, founding and currently participating members (as of 2008) are shown in dark green, while founding members that have since left the organization are shown in light green. Currently participating members that joined after the foundation of the Group are shown in medium green.
Member nations are listed below. The years in parenthesis represent the year/s a country has presided. Countries listed in bold are also members of the G-24. See the official list of G-77 members.
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Famous quotes containing the word members:
“...wasting the energies of the race by neglecting to develop the intelligence of the members to whom its most precious resources must be entrusted, already seems a childish absurdity.”
—Anna Eugenia Morgan (1845–1909)
“This will not be disloyalty but will show that as members of a party they are loyal first to the fine things for which the party stands and when it rejects those things or forgets the legitimate objects for which parties exist, then as a party it cannot command the honest loyalty of its members.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)