{"id":3617,"date":"2010-01-04T02:11:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T01:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2025-02-24T13:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:16:27","slug":"the-group-of-77-at-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=3617","title":{"rendered":"The Group of 77 at the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"

(as many people – including myself – do not know much about, here the presentation of this group<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Linked on our blogs with What happened at the summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Establishement: The Group of 77 (G-77) was established on 15 June 1964 by seventy-seven developing countries signatories of the \u201cJoint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Countries\u201d issued at the end of the first session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development<\/a> UNCTAD in Geneva.
\nBeginning with the first \u201cMinisterial Meeting of the Group of 77 in Algiers (Algeria) on 10 \u2013 25 October 1967, which adopted the Charter of Algiers\u201d, a permanent institutional structure gradually developed which led to the creation of Chapters of the Group of 77 with Liaison offices in Geneva (UNCTAD), Nairobi (UNEP), Paris (UNESCO), Rome (FAO\/IFAD), Vienna (UNIDO), and the Group of 24 (G-24) in Washington, D.C. (IMF and World Bank). Although the members of the G-77 have increased to 130 countries, the original name was retained because of its historic significance … (about 1\/2<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Homepage<\/a> and latest Statements and Speeches:
\nMember States<\/a>; Presiding Countries<\/a>; Major Docs<\/a>; Meetings<\/a>; Internship<\/a>;
\nIntergovernmental Group of Twenty Four<\/a> G24;
\nAddress: Group of 77, United Nations Headquarters, Room S-3953, New York, N.Y. 10017, USA;
\nContact<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About 2\/2<\/a>: … Aims: The Group of 77 is the largest intergovernmental organization of developing states in the United Nations, which provides the means for the countries of the South to articulate and promote their collective economic interests and enhance their joint negotiating capacity on all major international economic issues within the United Nations system, and promote South-South cooperation for development.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Structure:<\/p>\n

The operation and modalities of work of the G-77 in the various Chapters have certain minimal features in common such as a similarity in membership, decision-making and certain operating methods. A Chairman, who acts as its spokesman, coordinates the Group\u2019s action in each Chapter. The Chairmanship, which is the highest political body within the organizational structure of the Group of 77, rotates on a regional basis (between Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean) and is held for one year in all the Chapters. Currently the Republic of the Sudan holds the Chairmanship of the Group of 77 in New York for the year 2009. Ambassador Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad is the Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Sudan to the United Nations and Chairman of the Group of 77 in New York.<\/p>\n

The South Summit is the supreme decision-making body of the Group of 77. It is convened once in every five years. The First and the Second South Summits were held in Havana, Cuba, on 10 \u2013 14 April 2000 and in Doha, Qatar, on 12 \u2013 16 June 2005, respectively. In accordance with the principle of geographical rotation, the Third South Summit is due to be held in Africa in 2010.<\/p>\n

The Annual Meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Group of 77 is convened at the beginning of the regular session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. Periodically, Sectoral Ministerial Meetings in preparation for UNCTAD sessions and the General Conferences of UNIDO and UNESCO are convened. Special Ministerial Meetings are also called as needed such as on the occasion of the Group\u2019s 25th anniversary (Caracas, June 1989), 30th anniversary (New York, June 1994), and 40th anniversary (Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 2004). Other Sectoral Ministerial Meetings in various fields of cooperation of interest to the Group are convened, in order to pursue South-South cooperation. Starting in 1995, the Group convened a series of sectoral meetings in the following fields:<\/p>\n