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The Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), branded as UK Export Finance (UKEF), is the export credit agency and a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. In 1920, UKEF had a maximum total exposure of just £26 million.
The following is a list of the major existing intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). For a more complete listing, see the Yearbook of International Organizations , [ 1 ] which includes 25,000 international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), excluding for-profit enterprises, about 5,000 IGOs, and lists dormant and dead organizations as ...
The Board's president remains the Secretary of State for International Trade, who by virtue of their membership of the Privy Council, is the only member. Advisors to the Board include industry leaders, academics, junior ministers in the Department for International Trade, and the Secretaries of State for Scotland , Wales , and Northern Ireland .
The first time that non-governmental organizations were granted consultative status was in 1946, when 41 organizations were chosen. [3] By 1996, over 1000 NGO's were granted consultative status, and by the year 2000, there were 2050. [4] As of August 2021, there are a total of 5,591 organizations in consultative status with ECOSOC.
No. of members Headquarters World Trade Organization: 164 Geneva, Switzerland European Union: 27 Brussels, Belgium Organisation of Petroleum exporting countries (OPEC) 14 Vienna, Austria South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) 8 Kathmandu, Nepal Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) 10 Jakarta, Indonesia
1 These countries are currently not participating in the EU's single market (EEA), but the EU has common external Customs Union agreements with Turkey (EU-Turkey Customs Union in force since 1995), Andorra (since 1991) and San Marino (since 2002). Monaco participates in the EU customs union through its relationship with France; its ports are ...
A state can be formally recognised as such by becoming a member of the United Nations; there are currently 193 member states of the United Nations. The only non-UN states that undoubtedly meet the standard of statehood are the Cook Islands and Niue, who have had their "full treaty-making capacity" recognised by the United Nations Secretariat.
Both countries share common membership of the Atlantic co-operation pact, [208] and the World Trade Organization. Bilaterally the two countries have a High Level Prosperity Partnership. [209] Benin: 1960: See Foreign relations of Benin. The UK established diplomatic relations with Benin on 6 October 1960, then known as Dahomey. [137]