Selected Multilateral Organizations
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SELECTED MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATIONS
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MULTILATERAL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN WHICH THE UNITED STATES PARTICIPATES
Explanatory note: The United States participates in the organizations named below in accordance with the provisions of treaties, other international agreements, congressional legislation, or executive arrangements. In some cases, no financial contribution is involved.
Various commissions, councils, or committees subsidiary to the organizations listed here are not named separately on this list. These include the international bodies for narcotics control, which are subsidiary to the United Nations.
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United Nations, Specialized Agencies, and International Atomic Energy Agency
Food and Agricultural Organization
International Agency for Research in Cancer
International Atomic Energy Agency
International Civil Aviation Organization
International Fund for Agriculture Development
International Labor Organization
International Maritime Organization
International Telecommunication Union
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO)
Universal Postal Union
World Health Organization
World Intellectual Property Organization
World Meteorological Organization
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Peacekeeping
United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (Golan Heights)
United Nations Force in Cyprus
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
United Nations International Criminal Tribunal--Rwanda
United Nations International Criminal Tribunal--Yugoslavia
United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission
United Nations Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina
United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo
United Nations Mission in Kosovo
United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan
United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
United Nations Observer Mission in Angola
United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia
United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone
United Nations Prevention Deployment Force
United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor
United Nations Transitional Administration in Eastern Slovenia
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Inter-American Organizations
Border Environment Cooperation Commission
Inter-American Center of Tax Administrators
Inter-American Indian Institute
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
Organization of American States
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Pan American Institute of Geography and History
Pan American Railway Congress Association
Postal Union of the Americas and Spain and Portugal (PUASP)
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Regional Organizations
Asia Pacific Energy Research Center
Colombo Plan Council
Great Lakes Fishery Commission
International Energy Agency
North Atlantic Assembly
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Nuclear Energy Agency
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
South Pacific Commission
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Other International Organizations
Center for International Forestry Research
Commission for Labor Cooperation
Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Hague Conference on Private International Law
International Agreement on the Maintenance of Certain Lights in the Red Sea
International Bureau for the Permanent Court of Arbitration
International Bureau for the Protection of Industrial Property
International Bureau for the Publication of Customs Tariffs
International Bureau of Weights and Measures
International Center for Agriculrural Research in the Dry Areas
International Center for the Study of the Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)
International Coffee Organization
International Committee of the Red Cross
International Cotton Advisory Committee
International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES)
International Council of Scientific Unions and Its Associated Unions
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International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
International Development Law Institute
International Fertilizer Development Center
International Grain Council
International Human Frontier Science Program Organization
International Hydrographic Organization
International Institute for Cotton
International Institute for the Unification of Private Law
International Mobile Satellitte Organization
International North Pacific Fisheries Commission
International Organization for Legal Metrology (IOLM)
International Organization for Migration
International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions
International Plant Genetics Resources Institute
International Rubber Study Group
International Science and Technology Center
International Seed Testing Association
International Service for National Agriculture Research
International Sugar Council
International Tropical Timber Organization
International Union of Credit and Investment Insurers
International Whaling Commission
Interparliamentary Union
Iran-United States Claims Tribunal
Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
Multinational Force Observers
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Pacific Aviation Safety Office
Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses
Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
Science and Technology Center in Ukraine
Sierra Leone Special Court
World Heritage Fund
World Customs Organization
World Trade Organization (WTO)
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Special Voluntary Programs
African Institute for Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders
Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
International Center for Research in Agroforestry
International Council of Science
International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
International Federation of the Red Cross
International Food Policy Research Institute
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund
Organization of American States Fund for Strengthening Democracy
Organization of American States Special Development Assistance Fund
Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
United Nations Afghanistan Emergency Trust Fund
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
United Nations/Food and Agricultural Organization World Food Program
(WFP)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Program (UNHCR)
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
United Nations Voluntary Fund for the Victims of Torture
World Health Organization Special Programs
African Development Bank
Headquarters (temporary): Angle des Trois Rues, Avenue Du Ghana, Rue Pierre De Coubertin, Rue Hedi Nouira, BP. 323, 1002 Tunis Belvedere, Tunisia. Internet, http://www.afdb.org. E-mail, afdb@afdb.org.
President: Omar Kabbaj
The African Development Bank (AFDB) was established in 1964 and, by charter amendment, opened its membership to non-African countries in
1982. Its mandate is to contribute to the economic development and social progress of its regional members. Bank members total 77, including 53 African countries and 24 nonregional countries. With the September 1999 ratification of the agreement on the fifth general capital increase, Bank ownership is 60 percent African and 40 percent nonregional.
The African Development Fund (AFDF), the concessional lending affiliate, was established in 1973 to complement AFDB operations by providing concessional...
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