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| Name |
Formal Name |
Headquarters |
Established |
Aim |
Members |
| G-3 |
Group of 3 |
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NA September 1990 |
mechanism for policy coordination |
3: Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela |
| G-5 |
Group of 5 |
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22 September 1985 |
to coordinate the economic policies of five major noncommunist economic powers |
5: France, Germany, Japan, UK, US |
| G-6 |
Group of 6 (also known as Groupe des Six Sur le Desarmement; not to be confused with the Big Six) |
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22 May 1984 |
to achieve nuclear disarmament |
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| G-7 |
Group of 7 |
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22 September 1985 |
to facilitate economic cooperation among the seven major noncommunist economic powers |
7: Group of 5 (France, Germany, Japan, UK, US) plus Canada and Italy. (membership is the same as the Big Seven) |
| G-8 |
Group of 8 |
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NA October 1975 |
to facilitate economic cooperation among the developed countries (DCs) that participated in the Conference on International Economic Cooperation (CIEC), held in several sessions between NA December 1975 and 3 June 1977 |
8: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, UK, US |
| G-9 |
Group of 9 |
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to discuss matters of mutual interest on an informal basis |
9: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Sweden |
| G-10 |
Group of 10 (also known as the Paris Club; includes the wealthiest members of the IMF which provide most of the money to be loaned and act as the informal steering committee; name persists in spite of the addition of Switzerland on NA April 1984) |
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NA October 1962 |
to coordinate credit policy |
11: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, US |
| G-11 |
Group of 11 (also known as the Cartagena Group) |
Cartagena, Colombia |
21-22 June 1984 |
was to provide a forum for largest debtor nations in Latin America |
11: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela |
| G-15 |
Group of 15 (byproduct of the Nonaligned Movement) |
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NA September 1989 |
to promote economic cooperation among developing nations; to act as the main political organ for the Nonaligned Movement |
17: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Zimbabwe |
| G-24 |
Group of 24 |
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1 August 1989 |
to promote the interests of developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America within the IMF |
24 |
| G-77 |
Group of 77 |
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15 June1964; NA October 1967 first ministerial meeting |
to promote economic cooperation among developing countries; name persists in spite of increased membership |
133 plus the Palestine Liberation Organization |
| GCC |
Gulf Cooperation Council (also known as the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf) |
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25 May 1981 |
to promote regional cooperation in economic, social, political, and military affairs |
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