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SELECTED MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATIONS 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 drugs and crime, which are subsidiary to the United Nations. This listing is provided for reference purposes and should not be considered exhaustive. For more information on international organizations and United States participation in them, contact the State Department’s Bureau of International Organizations. Phone, 202–647–9326. Internet, www.state.gov/p/io. I. Specialized Agencies of the United United Nations Observer Mission in Nations Georgia Food and Agricultural Organization United Nations Stabilization Mission in International Atomic Energy Agency Haiti International Civil Aviation Organization United Nations Truce Supervision International Fund for Agriculture Organization (Middle East) Development International Labor Organization III. Inter-American Organizations International Maritime Organization Caribbean Postal Union International Telecommunication Union Inter-American Center of Tax United Nations Educational, Scientific Administrators and Cultural Organization Inter-American Indian Institute Universal Postal Union Inter-American Institute for Cooperation World Health Organization World Intellectual Property Organization on Agriculture World Meteorological Organization Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research II. Peacekeeping Inter-American Tropical Tuna African Union/United Nations Hybrid Commission Mission in Darfur Pan American Health Organization United Nations Interim Administration Pan American Institute of Geography Mission in Kosovo and History United Nations Mission in Ethiopia/ Pan American Railway Congress Eritrea Association United Nations Mission in Liberia Postal Union of the Americas and Spain United Nations Mission in Sudan and Portugal 563 VerDate Nov 24 2008 08:55 Oct 14, 2009 Jkt 217558 PO 00000 Frm 00563 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6997 M:\GOVMAN\217558\217558.105 APPS06 PsN: 217558 dkrause on GSDDPC29 with $$_JOB 564 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL IV. Regional Organizations International Cotton Advisory Committee Antarctic Treaty System International Council for the Exploration Arctic Council of the Seas Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation International Criminal Police Asia Pacific Energy Research Center Organization (INTERPOL) Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic International Customs Tariffs Bureau and Social Development in Asia and International Development Law the Pacific Organization Commission for Environmental International Energy Agency Cooperation International Energy Forum Secretariat Commission for Labor Cooperation International Fertilizer Development International Commission for the Center Conservation of Atlantic Tunas International Grains Council North Atlantic Assembly International Hydrographic Organization North Atlantic Treaty Organization International Institute for Applied North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Systems Analysis Organization International Institute for Cotton North Pacific Anadromous Fish International Institute for the Unification of Private Law Commission International Mobile Satellite North Pacific Coast Guard Forum Organization North Pacific Marine Science International North Pacific Fisheries Organization Commission Northwest Atlantic Fisheries International Organization for Legal Organization Metrology Secretariat of the Pacific Community International Organization of Supreme South Pacific Regional Environment Audit Institutions Program International Rubber Study Group Western and Central Pacific Fisheries International Science and Technology Commission Center International Seed Testing Association V. Other International Organizations International Service for National Center for International Forestry Agriculture Research Research International Sugar Council Commission for the Conservation of International Telecommunications Antarctic Marine Living Resources Satellite Organization Consultative Group on International International Tropical Timber Agricultural Research Organization COPAS-SARSAT (Search and Rescue International Union of Credit and Satellite System) Investment Insurers (Berne Union) Global Biodiversity Information Facility International Whaling Commission Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Inter-Parliamentary Union Council Iran-United States Claims Tribunal International Bureau for the Permanent Hague Conference on Private Court of Arbitration International Law International Bureau of Weights and Human Frontier Science Program Measures Organization International Center for Agricultural Multinational Force and Observers Research in the Dry Areas Nuclear Energy Agency International Center for Migration Policy Organization for Economic Cooperation Development and Development International Center for the Study of the Organization for the Prohibition of Preservation and the Restoration of Chemical Weapons Cultural Property Pacific Aviation Safety Office International Coffee Organization Permanent International Association of International Committee of the Red Cross Navigation Congresses VerDate Nov 24 2008 08:55 Oct 14, 2009 Jkt 217558 PO 00000 Frm 00564 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6997 M:\GOVMAN\217558\217558.105 APPS06 PsN: 217558 dkrause on GSDDPC29 with $$_JOB MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATIONS 565 Preparatory Commission for the African Development Bank Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Headquarters (temporary): Angle des Trois Treaty Rues, Avenue Du Ghana, Rue Pierre De Regional Environmental Center for Coubertin, Rue Hedi Nouira, BP. 323, 1002 Central and Eastern Europe Tunis Belve´de`re, Tunisia. Internet, Science and Technology Center in www.afdb.org. Email, [email protected]. Ukraine Sierra Leone Special Court President: Donald Kaberuka World Heritage Fund The African Development Bank (AFDB) World Customs Organization was established in 1964 and, by charter World Trade Organization amendment, opened its membership to non-African countries in 1982. Its VI. Special Voluntary Programs mandate is to contribute to the Asian Vegetable Research and economic development and social Development Center progress of its regional members. Bank Convention on International Trade in members total 77, including 53 African Endangered Species of Wild Fauna countries and 24 nonregional countries. and Flora (CITES) With the September 1999 ratification of Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, the agreement on the fifth general capital Tuberculosis, and Malaria increase, Bank ownership is 60 percent International Council for Science African and 40 percent nonregional. International Crop Research Institute for The African Development Fund Semi-Arid Tropics (AFDF), the concessional lending International Federation of the Red Cross affiliate, was established in 1973 to and Red Crescent Societies complement AFDB operations by International Food Policy Research providing concessional financing for Institute high-priority development projects in the International Fund for Agricultural poorest African countries. The Fund’s Development membership consists of 25 nonregional International Institute of Tropical member countries, South Africa, and Agriculture AFDB, which represents its African Joint United Nations Program on HIV/ members and is allocated half of the AIDS (UNAIDS) votes. Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization In February 2003, security concerns Multilateral Fund for the Implementation resulted in AFDB headquarters of the Montreal Protocol temporarily relocating to Tunis, Tunisia. Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel Asian Development Bank Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Headquarters: 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong United Nations Children’s Fund City, 1550 Metro Manila, Philippines. Phone, (UNICEF) 632–632–4444. Fax, 632–636–2444. Internet, United Nations Development Fund for www.adb.org. Women (UNIFEM) President: Haruhiko Kuroda United Nations Development Program United Nations Environment Program The Asian Development Bank United Nations World Food Program commenced operations on December United Nations High Commissioner for 19, 1966. It now has 67 member Refugees Programs countries: 48 from Asia and 19 from United Nations Relief and Works Agency outside the region. United Nations Voluntary Fund for the The purpose of the Bank is to foster Victims of Torture sustainable economic development, World Agroforestry Center poverty alleviation, and cooperation World Health Organization Special among its developing member countries Programs in the Asia/Pacific region. VerDate Nov 24 2008 08:55 Oct 14, 2009 Jkt 217558 PO 00000 Frm 00565 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6997 M:\GOVMAN\217558\217558.105 APPS06 PsN: 217558 dkrause on GSDDPC29 with $$_JOB 566 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL For further information, contact the Asian The Inter-American Development Bank Development Bank, P.O. Box 789, 0980 Manila, Philippines. Email, [email protected]. Or contact (IDB) was established in 1959 to help the ADB North American Representative Office, accelerate economic and social 815 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, DC development in Latin America and the 20006. Phone, 202–728–1500. Email, Caribbean. It is based in Washington, [email protected]. DC. The Bank has