BIICL INVESTMENT TREATY FORUM (BOLIVIA AND ICSID DENUNCIATION 20 June 2007

“THE ICSID CLUB”: LIST OF MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS

Mahnaz Malik1 Associate, IISD

Out of the total of 192 member states of the United Nations, 36 were not signatories to the ICSID Convention (18.5%). The states that have not signed the ICSID Convention include India, Qatar, Brazil, South Africa, Iran and Poland. A detailed table below identifies states as members and non-members of ICSID. The table is prepared using data from the ICSID website, www.worldbank.org/icsid.

Total UNO Member States Total ICSID Signatories Total Non ICSID States Signatories States 192 156 36

Sr Nos. ICSID SIGNATORIES NON-ICSID SIGNATORIES 1 Afghanistan Andorra 2 Albania Angola 3 Algeria Antigua and Barbuda 4 Argentina Bhutan 5 Armenia Brazil 6 Australia Cape Verde 7 Austria Cuba 8 Azerbaïjan Djibouti 9 Bahamas Dominica 10 Bahrain Equatorial Guinea 11 Bangladesh Eritrea 12 Barbados India 13 Belarus Iran 14 Belgium Iraq 15 Belize Kiribati 16 Benin Korea Democratic 17 Bolivia Lao

18 Bosnia and Herzegovina Libyan Arab

19 Botswana Liechtenstein 20 Brunei Darussalam Maldives 21 Bulgaria Marshall Island

1 Mahnaz Malik is an international lawyer qualified to practice law as an Attorney at Law in New York (USA), a Solicitor in & (presently non-practising) and an Advocate in . She holds a LLB and MA in Law from Cambridge University (UK). Email: [email protected] 22 Burkina Faso Mexico 23 Burundi Monaco 24 Cambodia Montenegro 25 Cameroon Myanmar 26 Canada Nauru

27 Central African Republic Palau

28 Chad Poland 29 Chile Qatar 30 China San Marino 31 Colombia South Africa 32 Comoros Suriname 33 Congo Tajikistan

34 Congo, Democratic Rep. of Tuvalu

35 Costa Rica Vanuatu 36 Côte d'Ivoire Viet Nam 37 Croatia 38 Cyprus 39 Czech Republic 40 Denmark 41 Dominican Republic 42 Ecuador 43 Egypt, Arab Rep. of 44 El Salvador 45 Estonia 46 Ethiopia 47 Fiji 48 Finland 49 France 50 Gabon 51 Gambia, The 52 Georgia 53 Germany 54 Ghana 55 Greece 56 Grenada 57 Guatemala 58 Guinea 59 Guinea-Bissau 60 Guyana 61 Haiti 62 Honduras 63 Hungary 64 Iceland 65 Indonesia 66 Ireland 67 Israel 68 Italy 69 Jamaica 70 Japan 71 Jordan 72 Kazakhstan 73 Kenya 74 Korea, Rep. of 75 Kuwait 76 Kyrgyz, Republic 77 Latvia 78 Lebanon 79 Lesotho 80 Liberia 81 Lithuania 82 Luxembourg

83 Macedonia, former Yugoslav Rep. of

84 Madagascar 85 Malawi 86 Malaysia 87 Mali 88 Malta 89 Mauritania 90 Mauritius 91 Micronesia 92 Moldova 93 Mongolia 94 Morocco 95 Mozambique 96 Namibia 97 Nepal 98 Netherlands 99 New Zealand 100 Nicaragua 101 Niger 102 Nigeria 103 Norway 104 Oman 105 Pakistan 106 Panama 107 Papua New Guinea 108 Paraguay 109 Peru 110 Philippines 111 Portugal 112 Romania 113 Russian Federation 114 Rwanda

115 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

116 Samoa

117 Sao Tome and Principe

118 Saudi Arabia 119 Senegal 120 Serbia 121 Seychelles 122 Sierra Leone 123 Singapore 124 Slovak Republic 125 Slovenia 126 Solomon Islands 127 Somalia 128 Spain 129 Sri Lanka 130 St. Kitts & Nevis 131 St. Lucia 132 Sudan 133 Swaziland 134 Sweden 135 Switzerland 136 Syria 137 Tanzania 138 Thailand 139 Timor-Leste 140 Togo 141 Tonga 142 Trinidad and Tobago 143 Tunisia 144 Turkey 145 Turkmenistan 146 Uganda 147 Ukraine 148

United Kingdom of Great Britain and 149 Northern Ireland 150 United States of America

151 Uruguay 152 Uzbekistan 153 Venezuela 154 Yemen, Republic of 155 Zambia 156 Zimbabwe