Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
2 Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City are not members of Schengen, but act as such via their open borders with Spain, France and Italy, respectively. 3 Switzerland is not an official member of EEA but has bilateral agreements largely with the same content, making it virtually a member.
Sweden is one of few member nations which meets or exceeds United Nations humanitarian aid spending target of 0.7% of GDP. [3] In 2017, Swedish aid spending amounted to 1.4% of its GDP . [ 4 ] The country has held a non-permanent seat in the Security Council four times, most recently between 2017 and 2018.
EU member states also collectively provide 33.2% [17] of the funding for UN peacekeeping missions and around half of the budgets for UN funds and programmes. Almost a third of the European Commission's aid budget goes to the UN. [7] EU member states collectively provided 13.5% of peacekeeping personnel (11,140 men and women) in 2006.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 February 2025. For the League of Nations, see Member states of the League of Nations. 193 United Nations member states 2 UN General Assembly observer states (the Holy See [a] and the State of Palestine) 2 eligible non-member states (the Cook Islands and Niue) 17 non-self-governing territories ...
The Eastern European Group in 2012, with the years each member spent in the United Nations Security Council, including former members represented as outlines. The Group of Eastern European States (EEG) is one of the five United Nations regional groups and is composed of 23 Member States from Eastern, Central and Southern Europe.
When the Republic of Cyprus became part of the European Union on 1 May 2004, the northern third of the island was outside of the effective control of its government due to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, a United Nations buffer zone of varying width separated the two parts, and a further 3% of the island was taken up by UK sovereign bases ...
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.
As of 4 February 2025, there are 193 member states in the United Nations (UN), each of which is a member of the United Nations General Assembly. [1]The following is a list of United Nations member states arranged in chronological order according to their dates of admission (with the United Nations Security Council resolutions that recommended their admission and the United Nations General ...