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International Organisations

ADB (Asian Development Bank)
Formation : 22 August 1966
Headquarter : Philippines
President : Takehiko Nakao
Motto : Fighting poverty in Asia and the Pacific 

ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
Formation : 8 August 1967
Headquarter :Jakarta, Indonesia
Secretary General : Le Luong Minh
Motto : One Vision, One Identity, One Community

BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) 
Countries : Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal.

Establishment : June 6, 1997
 
BIS (Bank for International Settlements )
 

Commonwealth of Nations
 

CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
 

Columbo Plan
 

EAS (East Asia Summit)
 

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
 

G-7 (The seven leading Industrial Countries, specially the U.S., Germany, Japan, France, UK, Canada and Italy)

G-8 (Group of 8 developed countries)
[G8 - ABC FR JIG] - (America, Britain, Canada, France, Russia, Japan, Italy, Germany)
* G8 don't have any Headquarter.

G-10 (G-7 plus Belgium, Netherlands and Sweden, a group associated with IMF)

G-15
 

G-20 (G8 + Australia, Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arab, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey & European Union)
 

G-24
 

G-77

IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)


IBRD (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) 
Headquarters : Washington, D.C., United States
President of the World Bank : Jim Yong Kim
Membership : 188 countries 
Parent organization : World Bank Group
Formation : 1944

ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization)
 

ICC (International Chamber of Commerce)
 

IDA (International Development Association)

IFC (International Finance Corporation) 
Purpose/focus : Private sector development, Poverty reduction

Headquarters : Washington, D.C.
Executive Vice President & CEO : Jin-Yong Cai
Formation : 1956
Membership : 184 countries 
Parent organization : World Bank Group
 


IMF (International Monetary Fund) 
Headquarters : Washington  D.C., United States
Managing Director  : Christine Lagarde


ILO (International Labour Organization )

Inmarsat (International Mobile Satellite Organization)

ICPO/InterPol (International Criminal Police Organization)

ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross)

IOC (International Olympic Committee)

ITSO (International Telecommunications Satellite Organization )


ITU (International Telecommunication Union)

ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation)

MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency)

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Headquarter : Paris, France


OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) 
Headquarters: Vienna, Austria
Membership : 12 states (2011)
Leaders
 - President : Bijan Namdar Zanganeh
 - Secretary General : Abdallah el-Badri
Establishment : Baghdad, Iraq
 - Statute : September 10–14, 1960
 - in effect : January 1961
OPEC is an intergovernmental organization that was created at the Baghdad Conference on September 10–14, 1960, by Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. Later it was joined by nine more governments: Libya, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia, Algeria, Nigeria, Ecuador, Angola, and Gabon



SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) 
Establishment : December 8, 1985
Headquarters : Kathmandu, Nepal
Membership  :  8 members , 9 observers
Leaders
 -Chairman : Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik
 - Secretary General : Ahmed Saleem
SAARC summits
17th = 10–11 November 2011- Maldives- Addu- Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik
18th  =  2013 - Nepal - Kathmandu- Khil Raj Regmi

UN (United Nations)


UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) 
Established :1964
Headquarters : Geneva, Switzerland


UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 
Head : Irina Bokova
Established : 16 November 1945[1]
Headquarters : Paris, France

UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization)


World Bank 
Headquarter : Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
President :  Jim Yong Kim
Membership : 188 countries (IBRD),  172 countries (IDA)
Motto : Working for a World Free of Poverty


WFTU (World Federation of Trade Unions)

WHO (World Health Organization)


WTO (World Trade Organization) 
Formation : 1 January 1995
Headquarters : Geneva, Switzerland
Membership : 159 member states[1]
Director-General : Robert Azevedo
The organization officially commenced on 1 January 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which commenced in 1948.



UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) 
Head : Anthony Lake
Headquarters : New York, USA
Established : December 11 1946
Parent org : ECOSOC
UNICEF was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II.

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