Regional groups
The States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons have organized themselves into a number of groups to facilitate their representation in the CCW meetings, as well as their preparations and discussions. The membership of these groups differs from those found in other forums, despite the similar names. Each group has a coordinator who may speak on behalf of the group and is responsible for organising and chairing meetings of that group. The current coordinators and members of each group are listed below:
Eastern European Group (EEG):
Coordinator: Bulgaria
Membership:
Group of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM):
Coordinator: Cuba
Membership:
- Afghanistan (s)
- Albania
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Brunei Darussalam
- Cambodia
- Cape Verde
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- Egypt (s)
- Gabon
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- India
- Jordan
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Mali
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria (s)
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Peru
- Philippines
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan (s)
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Venezuela
- Viet Nam (s)
States not parties to CCW:
- Algeria
- Bahrain
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bhutan
- Botswana
- Burundi
- Cote d'Ivoir
- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Dominican Republic
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Indonesia
- Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Iraq
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Oman
- Qatar
- Rwanda
- Singapore
- Somalia
- Syria
- Thailand
- United Arab Emirates
- Zimbabwe
Western European and Others Group (WEOG):
Coordinator: Germany
Membership:
Group of One:
Membership: China
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