INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS, YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT AND HQ

           INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS, YEAR OF                                   ESTABLISHMENT AND HQ

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• • Arab League- 1945- 22- Cairo
• • ASEAN- Aug 8, 1967- 9- Jakarta, founded at Bangkok.
• • COMECON- 1948- Havana.
• • Colombo Plan- 1st July 1951- Colombo (Srilanka)
• • Common Wealth- 1931- 53- London.
• • Council of Europe- 1949- 34- Strasbourg.
• • CIS- Jan 1991- 12-
• • D8- 15 June 1997- Founded at Turkey, HQ Turkey.
• • ECO- Jan 1985- 8- Tehran.
• • GCC- 1981- 6- Riyadh
• • ICJ- 1951- Geneva.
• • ICRC- 1883- Geneva.
• • Interpol 1956 Lyon (France)
• • NAM 1961
• • OIC 22 to 25 Sep 1969- 56- Jeddah established in Rabat (Morocco).
• • SAARC 8, 1985- 7- 8 Katmandu- established at Dhaka.
• • NATO- 1949 Brussels.
• • SEATO Sep 8, 1954 founder at Manila, ended in 1977.
• • UNO 24 Oct 1945 New York.
• • Warsaw Pact 14th May 1955. Dissolved in 1991.
• • Term of non-permanent members of the Security Council is 2 years.
• • General Assembly and Security Council appoints the judges of International Court of Justice.
• • RCD was changed to ECO in Jan 1985.
• • G-8 was established on 22 September 1985. G-8 was originally the G-5 but was expanded when Canada, Italy and Russia jointed in June 1997.
• • European Union came in to being on January 1, 2000, EU adopted Euro currency in 2001. Its head quarter is in Brussels (Belgium).
• • International Energy Agency was founded in 1974; its head quarter is in Paris (France).
• • International Olympic Committee was formed in 1984; its head quarter is in Lausanne (Switzerland).
• • The head quarter of international Red Cross and Red Crescent is in Geneva (Switzerland).
• • Organization of Petroleum and Exporting Countries was founded in Baghdad in 1960; its head quarter is in Vienna (Austria).
• • The organization of Economic Cooperation and Development was founded in 1961; its head quarter is in Paris (France).
• • The world council of churches was established in 1948 in Amsterdam (Netherlands), its headquarter is in Geneva (Switzerland).
• • North American Free Trade Agreement, its origin lies in the free trade agreement signed by the USA and Canada in 1989.
• • The organization of African Unity was founded in 1963; its head quarter is in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).
• • The organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries was founded in 1968, its headquarter is in Cairo (Egypt).
• • Organization of American State was founded in 1948; its heat quarter is in Washington DC (USA).
• • There are 76 countries in WTO
• • China became the member of the World Trade Organization on 11 December 2001
• • OPANAL stands for Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America.