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The Group of Asia and the Pacific Small Island Developing States (often shortened as Asia and the Pacific or Asia-Pacific Group) is one of the five United Nations regional groups and is composed of 53 Member States from Asia and Oceania. [1]
The Asia and the Pacific Group has three seats on the Security Council: China's permanent seat and two non-permanent seats. The group also has 11 seats on the Economic and Social Council and 13 seats on the Human Rights Council. In the rotation for the election of the President of the United Nations General Assembly, the group is responsible ...
The Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) is a FATF style regional inter-governmental (international) body, the members of which are committed to effectively implementing the international standards against money laundering (Anti–money laundering or AML), the combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP) is one of the five regional commissions under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. [1] It was established in order to increase economic activity in Asia and the Far East, as well as to foster economic relations between the region ...
The Asia–Pacific ( APAC) [1] is the region of the world adjoining the western Pacific Ocean. The region's precise boundaries vary depending on context, but countries and territories in Australasia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia are often included. In a wider context, Central Asia, North Asia, the Pacific Islands, South Asia, West Asia ...
A total of 175 United Nations member states have been elected to ECOSOC. Out of these, 5 have ceased to exist and 1 has been expelled, leaving a total of 169 members. Combined with the 24 current members that have never been elected to ECOSOC (see #Non-members below), these make up the 193 current members of the UN .
ASEAN: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a regional organisation comprising ten Southeast Asian states. ASEAN+3: the ASEAN countries, plus China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). [4] ASEAN+5: the ASEAN countries with Japan, India, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand. ASEAN+6 along with China.
UNCTAD members are divided into four categories based on United Nations Regional Groups, with six members unassigned: Kiribati, Nauru, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Tuvalu. List A consists mostly of countries in the UN's African Group and Asia-Pacific Group. List B consists of countries of the Western European and Others Group.