Two thirds of the Member States of the United Nations.
80% of the world's population
This is the first time that Cuba will chair this negotiating group.
PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS
New York
Paris
Rome
Geneva
Vienna
OBJECTIVES
A mechanism to coordinate the positions of underdeveloped countries with a view to their participation in economic events.
To unite the dispossessed and give them a voice to fight against an unjust, plundering, excluding and unsustainable international order.
ISSUES ADDRESSED
Climate change
Poverty
Unemployment
Food insecurity
Unilateral coercive economic measures
Reform of trade and international financial institutions
Escalation of geopolitical tensions and forms of domination and hegemony.
PURPOSES OF THE ARCHIPELAGO AT THE HEAD OF THE CONCLAVE
- To promote with concrete actions the aspirations set out in the 2030 Agenda.
- To promote international solidarity and cooperation in support of post-pandemic recovery for the developing world.
- Make South-South and Triangular cooperation a more effective instrument for the countries of the South.
- Enforce the responsibilities of industrialized countries to support development efforts through North-South cooperation.
- Promote universal access to quality education and health.
- Support the rules-based, transparent, non-discriminatory, open and inclusive multilateral trading system based on the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries.
- Advance the common positions of developing countries, preserve and consolidate the unity of the Group and make its voice heard in the multiple and relevant multilateral processes to be held in 2023.
G-77 SUMMIT MOMENTS
1963. The movement is created in New York during the First UN Conference on Trade and Development.
1966. Seventy-five countries sign the first document: the Joint Declaration of the Developing Countries.
1967. The First Ministerial Meeting is held in Algiers. The Charter of Algiers, with demands for developing countries, was approved in preparation for the Second Conference.
1968. The II UN Conference on Trade and Development is held in New Delhi, India.
1971. The II Ministerial Meeting is held in Lima, Peru. The Lima Program of Action is approved. Cuba joins after the Santiago de Chile meeting, in which Salvador Allende participated.
1972. The III UN Conference on Trade and Development is held in Santiago, Chile. First participation of Cuba.
1975. The III Ministerial Meeting of the G77 was held in Manila, Philippines. Approval of the Manila Declaration.
1979. The IV UN Conference on Trade and Development is held in Arusha, Tanzania. The Agenda for Collective Self-Reliance and Framework for Negotiations was initialed.
1981. The Caracas Program of Action on Economic Cooperation among Developing Countries emerges in Venezuela.
1982. The Ministerial Declaration on the Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries (GSTP) is issued.
1985. The Declaration on the Global System of Trade Preferences (GSTP) is published, New Delhi, India.
1987. The VI Ministerial Meeting of the G77 is held in Havana. Fidel Castro participates and delivers a speech at the inaugural session.
1989. The Declaration of Caracas, Venezuela, is approved on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the organization.
1990. Havana hosts the meeting of the G-77 Chambers of Commerce, which promotes the incorporation of businessmen to South-South cooperation.
1994. The Ministerial Declaration on An Agenda for Development is signed, New York, USA.
1998. The Bali Declaration and Plan of Action emerge, referring to the High-Level Meeting on Regional and Subregional Economic Integration.
2000. Cuba chairs the G-77 at FAO. In addition, the First and Second South Summits were held in Havana, where a Declaration and a Program of Action were approved. It was repeated again in 2005, in Doha, Qatar.
2001. The Declaration of the Group of 77 plus China on the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the WTO is adopted in Doha, Qatar.
2002. Venezuela presides the G-77, with Hugo Chávez as representative.
2005. They disseminate the Declaration in preparation for the Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference, in Hong Kong, China.
2014. The G-77 Summit was held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The blockade imposed by the US against Cuba was rejected and support was given to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The Declaration for a New World Order to Live Well was also signed, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Group of 77.
- The 46th Ministerial Meeting of the Group of 77 plus China is held in New York. Cuba is elected, by acclamation, as Chairman for 2023. It receives the chairmanship today from Pakistan.
(Taken from Granma)