Middle Power Groupings
Middle powers often work together at the United Nations, where they work to prevent the great powers from monopolizing the agenda.
The Uniting for Consensus Group (Italy, Canada, Spain, Mexico, South Korea, Turkey, Argentina, Pakistan, Malta) is a group of middle powers active in the debate over possible reform of the UN Security Council. Specifically, they oppose giving permanent seats to the presumptive great powers of G4 (Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan).
The JACKSNNZ countries (Japan, Australia, Canada, Korea, Switzerland, Norway and New Zealand) are a loose grouping of wealthy middle power countries that emerged during the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention talks in 2006 in opposition to the position of the United States.
The Cairns Group is a group of 19 agricultural exporting countries, composed of Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, and Uruguay. They are opposed
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