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The United Nations Regional Groups are the geopolitical regional groups of member states of the United Nations. Originally, the UN member states were unofficially organized into five groups as an informal means of sharing the distribution of posts for General Assembly committees. Now this grouping has taken on a much more expansive and official ...
United Nations (UN) - Membership in the UN includes participation in the UN's Six Principal Organs: the General Assembly, Secretariat, International Court of Justice, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and Trusteeship Council. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
(Prior to 1994, there were seven Main Committees, with two chairs from the African Group, one chair from every other group, and the remaining chair rotating between the Asian Group and the Latin American Group "every alternate year".) [7] The rules also state that every member of the General Committee must be from a different country. [8]
The committee comprises 19 members who are elected based on the principle of equitable geographic distribution as follows: 5 members from African States; 4 members from Asian States; 2 members from Eastern European States; 4 members from Latin American and Caribbean States; 4 members from Western European and Other States
This list contains the 138 United Nations member states so far elected to the United Nations Security Council, including the five permanent members, all listed by number of years each country has so far spent on the UNSC. Of all the members, 6 have so far ceased to exist, leaving the list with 132 modern nations.
Coalitions and unofficial groups of member states of the United Nations. Pages in category "United Nations coalitions and unofficial groups" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Executive Committee Members Fellows Total European Group: 7: 15 Czech Republic 1 Denmark 1 France 2 1 Germany 1 1 Greece 1 Italy 3 4 Netherlands 1 Serbia 1 Spain 1 Sweden 1 1 Switzerland 1 United Kingdom 1 North American Group: 4: 17 Canada 1 3 Mexico 1 2 United States 2 12 Asia Pacific Group: 6: 7 India 1 Japan 5 4
A total of 176 United Nations member states have been elected to ECOSOC. Out of these, 5 have ceased to exist and 1 has been expelled, leaving a total of 170 members. Combined with the 23 current members that have never been elected to ECOSOC (see #Non-members below), these make up the 193 current members of the UN.