Tag: international organizations

The flag of Benelux is an unofficial flag commissioned by the Committee for Belgian-Dutch-Luxembourgian Cooperation in 1951. Benelux is an amalgam of the flags of the member states: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The red stripe is from the Flag of Luxembourg, the blue stripe is from the Flag of the Netherlands, and the black…

Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie is an international organization representing countries and regions where French is a lingua franca or customary language, where a significant proportion of the population are francophones, French speakers, or where there is a notable affiliation with French culture. The organization comprises 88 member states and governments; of these, 54 states…

The Central American Integration System has been the economic and political organization of Central American states since February 1, 1993. On December 13, 1991, the ODECA countries signed the Protocol of Tegucigalpa, extending earlier cooperation for regional peace, political freedom, democracy and economic development. In 1991, SICA’s institutional framework included Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua,…

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is an economic union comprising 10 member states in Southeast Asia, which promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration between its members and other countries in Asia. ASEAN’s primary objective was to accelerate economic growth and through that social progress and cultural development…

The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf known as the Gulf Cooperation Council or GCC is a regional, intergovernmental political and economic union that consists of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The council main headquarter is in the city of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. The Charter…

The Union of South American Nations is an intergovernmental regional organization that once comprised twelve South American countries. The USAN is an alliance of states of currently 12 countries in South America. All member states comprise a total area of 17.71 million km² and about 427.06 million people. This is 11.7% of the habitable area…

The flag of the East African Community is the flag used since 2008 by the East African Community, an intergovernmental organization composed of six countries in the African Great Lakes region in eastern Africa. The first version of the flag was adopted in 2003 by the Community Emblem Act, 2003 when the Community only consisted…

The Collective Security Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia that consists of selected post-Soviet states. The CSTO grew out of the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States and first began as the CIS Collective Security Treaty which was signed on 15 May 1992, by Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan…

The Flag of the Eurasian Economic Union is one of the symbols of the economic community formed by Eurasian countries and was created by an official document issued by the economic bloc in 2014. Flag of Eurasian Economic Union The official symbols of the bloc are the Union flag and the emblem of the Union;…