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Palestine takes over chairmanship of G77
January 18 , 2019
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- Palestine took over the chairmanship of the Group of 77 from Arab Republic of Egypt.
- The decision to elect Palestine as 2019 Chair of the G77 was taken in September 2018 by the foreign ministers of the Groups’ member States.
- In October 2018, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution enabling Palestine, to have additional privileges and rights.
- Palestine is not the member-state of UN, but it has the status of non-member observer state similar to Holy city of Vatican.
- The Chairmanship is based on the system of geographical rotation (between Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean) and is held for one year.
- G77 is a coalition of 134 developing nations (including China) at the United Nations.
- G77 was formed on 15 June 1964 by the “Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Countries” issued at the UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development).
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