In competitive exams, many questions come from the international organization. We have covered some international organization in the previous article. So, in this article, we will continue with the remaining organization.
Important International Organization Part-2
|Founded in||1 November 1993|
|Members||28 European countries|
Treaty of Maastricht established the European Union in 1992. Recently United Kingdom has initiated a process for withdrawing from EU.
|Head||European council President- Donald Franciszek Tusk
European Commission president- Jean-Claude Juncker
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
|Members||Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand (Founding members), Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.|
ASEAN promotes Pan-Asianism and intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, military, educational and cultural integration amongst its members and Asian states.
|Head||Chairman- Rodrigo Duterte
Secretary-General- Le Luong Minh
|Member||Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka|
|Remark||The organization promotes the development of economic and regional integration. It launched the South Asian Free Trade Area in 2006.|
|Head||Amjad Hussain B. Sial (Secretary-General)|
Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)
|India and BIMSTEC||Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal|
|Remark||The BIMSTEC states are among the countries dependent on the Bay of Bengal|
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
|Founded in||15 June 2001|
|Member||China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan|
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
|Founded in||4th April 1949|
|Head||General Petr Pavel, Czech Land Forces|
|Members||NATO is an alliance that consists of 29 independent member countries across North America and Europe.|
|Remarks||NATO constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. Three NATO members (the United States, France, and the United Kingdom) are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with the power to veto and are officially nuclear-weapon states.
|Head||Jens Stoltenberg (Secretary-General)|
Nuclear Supplier Group(NSG)
|India and NSG||India is not a member of NSG|
|Important fact about NSG||Ø It is a group of nuclear supplier countries that seek to prevent nuclear proliferation by controlling the export of materials, equipment and technology that can be used to manufacture nuclear weapons.
Ø It has also been referred to as the London Group, or the London Suppliers Group.
International Court of Justice(ICJ)
|India and ICJ||India is a member of ICJ|
|The important fact about ICJ||The Court has a twofold role: to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States (Contentious cases) and to give advisory opinions (Advisory proceedings) on legal questions referred to it by duly authorized United Nations organs and specialized agencies.|
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
|Founded in||15 May 1992 (as Collective Security Treaty)
7 Oct 2002 (as Collective Security Treaty Organization)
|Members||6 members and 2 observers|