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EURASIAN and OTHER RELATIONSHIPS within
and between CONTINENTS |
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The listing is alphabetically. It is not
exhaustive nor conclusive. |
The objective of this document/file is to allow
parties a quick scan of the 'landscape of Eurasian and
other relationships within and between continents.
There is a
lively traffic of communication and association within and between Asia and
Europe. As there are between Asia and Africa, South-America and other
regions. Here is a list of their acronyms to get an impression **) and some
web addresses to have a closer look. All want to stimulate exchange of
knowledge, trade, bring peace, prosperity and jobs back to their home
countries. Some do not
have an address, a homepage or website of their own; though they meet every
year. So they differ in sturdiness and deliverables. Within in a certain time
span and configuration of political will and power –it is politics- there
will be transcontinental meetings and organisations that do produce tangible,
concrete and once in a lifetime results. So there are
numerous windows of opportunities to strengthen relationships on research,
science, cultural exchange and trade; within and between continents. (And if
this is ‘too big a thing’, one might opt for similarly platforms of
established mutual trust: the existing twin cities relationships between
cities and countries (www.twincities.nl).) All information is or was publicly available on the
internet of these organisations at some level or other. 2017, Sept 17th. |
ABC ASEAN Brussels Committee *
no home page
ACD Asia Co-operation Dialogue http://www.acddialogue.com/web/1.php
ACS Convention Establishing the Association of Caribbean States www.acs-aec.org
Addresses of ACS's Chambers of Commerce of the member states (old doc
but it is a start) www.acs-aec.org/Documents/Misc/Directorio_N3_Sector_Privado_Eng1.doc
ADB Asian Development Bank www.adb.org/ www.asiandevbank.org
AEBF Asia-Europe Business Forum http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/economy/asem/aebf/
ABETC
Asia-Europe Environmental Technology Centre http://www.aeetc.org/
AEGIS Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies www.aegis-eu.org
AEH ASEM Education Hub www.aeh.asef.org/
AEMM
ASEAN-EC / EU Ministerial Meeting www.aseansec.org/17354.htm
16th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) was in Nuremberg, Germany, from
14-15 March 2007
http://app.mfa.gov.sg/2006/press/view_press.asp?post_id=2241 (
(see 2a of http://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/6_3_13_en.htm)
AEVG Asia-Europe Vision Group www.iias.nl/asem/relatedm/visiongr.html
AFCF Asia-Europe Co-operation Framework
AfDB African Development Bank: http://www.afdb.org/en/home/%20
AFTA ASEAN Free Trade Area www.aseansec.org
AIA ASEAN Investment Area www.aseansec.org/6480.htm
AIB Asian Investment Bank *
no home page
AIB African Investment Bankhttp://www.bceao.int/internet/bcweb.nsf/383b3b912798968b00256790005d7014/3ea6a45897399d94002571b70052cfe6?OpenDocument
AMF Asian Monetary Fund * no home page
AMM ASEAN Ministerial Meeting 39th AMM http://www.39amm.org.my/
AMU Asian Monetary Union *
no home page
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation http://www.apecsec.org.sg/
APT ASEAN Plus Three / ASEAN+3 http://www.aseansec.org/18579.htm
ARF ASEAN Regional Forum www.aseanregionalforum.org
ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations www.aseansec.org
Organisations www.aseansec.org
PMC
ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference www.aseansec.org/16209.htm
ASEF Asia-Europe Foundation www.asef.org
ASEM Asia-Europe Meeting http://asem.inter.net.th/
ASEM EMM Economic Ministers' Meeting * no home page
AU African Union www.africa-union.org/root/au/index/index.htm
BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India
China): pm
CAEC Council for Asia Europe
Cooperation www.caec-asiaeurope.org
CIS Commonwealth of Independent
States http://www.cis.minsk.by/main.aspx?uid=74
CMESA Common Market for Eastern and Southern
Africa PM
CORDS Connecting Organizations for
Regional Disease Surveillance WWW.cordsnetwork.org
COSTIS (UN/G77/)Consortium on
Science, Technology and Innovation for the South www.g77.org/doc/costis.html
CRED Centre for Research on the
Epidemiology of Disasters www.cred.be
(UN association)
DRC Disaster Research Center www.udel.edu/DRC/aboutus/index.html
EAEC East Asia Economic Caucus *
no home page
EAEG East Asia Economic Grouping *
no home page
EBIC European Business Information Centre www.eccsl.com/AboutUs.html
ECOSOC
Economic & Social Council www.un.org/en/ecosoc
ECOWAS
Economic Community of West African States www.ecowas.int
EFTA European Free Trade Association http://secretariat.efta.int/efta/library/legal/vaduz/
EFSHT European Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy www.eurohandtherapy.org
EIB European Investment Bank www.eib.org
EFS European structural and investment funds https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/european-structural-and-investment-funds_en
ESPON
European Spatial Planning Observation Network www.espon.eu/
EU
European Union http://europa.eu/
Asia Link Programme http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/projects/asia-link/fundedprojects_home.htm
EU
research organisations, list of www.bjernv.dds.nl/EU.html
Research
Liaison Office Joint
Research Centre www.jrc.cec.eu.int
Joint
Research Institutes
o IRMM: http://irmm.jrc.cec.eu.int
o ITU: http://itu.jrc.cec.eu.int
o IE: http://ie.jrc.cec.eu.int
o IPSC: http://ipsc.jrc.cec.eu.int
o IES: http://ies.jrc.cec.eu.int
o IHCP: http://ihcp.jrc.cec.eu.int
o IPTS: http://ipts.jrc.cec.eu.int
UBC
University-Business Cooperation (EC): http://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/educ/business/index_en.html
EURASIANHOME www.eurasianhome.org
EURATOM
European Atomic Energy Community www.euratom.org
EUROSEAS
European Organization for Southeast Asian Studies * no home page
FEALAC
Forum for East Asia and Latin America Co-operation * no home page
FinMM Finance Ministers' Meeting * no home page
FMM Foreign Ministers' Meeting *
no home page
Free Trade Agreements, list of
Regional.. (documented) http://intl.econ.cuhk.edu.hk/rta/index.php?did=23
FTA Free Trade Agreement / Area http://www.iesingapore.gov.sg/wps/portal/FTA
FTAA Free Trade Agreement of Americas www.ftaa-alca.org/alca_e.asp
FTA CIS Free Trade Agreement of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS
countries; former Soviet States) www.bisnis.doc.gov/
International Partnership for Energy
Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC) url: pm
G8 Research Group www.g8.utoronto.ca
student section of: http://g8live.org/
GCC Gulf Co-operation Council http://www.fatf-gafi.org/document/9/0,2340,fr_32250379_32236869_34438857_1_1_1_1,00.html
GSP Generalized Systems of Preferences EU, USA respectively More info:http://www.ali.org/doc/wto/wto2003/Chapter_9_GSP.pdf
IAEA International Atomic Energy Association www.iaea.int
IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development www.worldbank.org/ibrd
ICAf
Infrastructure Consortium for Africa: http://www.icafrica.org/en/
IFSHT
International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy www.ifsht.org
ILO International
Labour Organisation www.ilo.org
ALO
Arab Labour Organization www.alolabor.org (unfortunately: not in English)
IMF
International Monetary Fund www.imf.org
IORRC
Indian Ocean Rim Association of Regional Co-operation * no home page
ITF
International Transport Agency www.itf-oecd.org
JSEPA Japan-Singapore
Economic Partnership Agreement *
no home page
KEDO
Korean Energy Development Organization http://www.kedo.org/
LDCs
Least Developed Countries www.unohrlls.org/
MENA
Middle East and North African www.oecd.org/mena
NABC Netherlands African Business
Council www.nabc.nl
NAFTA
North American Free Trade Area http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/Policy/NAFTA/nafta.asp
NEPAD
New Partnership for Africa's Development www.nepad.org
New
BRICs
(De
Pers, 2/7/2009; 19 upcoming markets/countries Mexico, Colombia,Peru, Chili,
Argentina, South-Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Hungary, Tjechia,
Poland, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan,
South-Korea): pm
NPCA
New Partnership for Africa's Development Planning and Co-ordination
Agency PM
Norden
- Nordic Council of Ministers - www.norden.org
OAS
Organization of American States www.oas.org
ODA
Official Development Assistance *
no home page
OECD
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development www.oecd.org
OIAS
Organization of Ibero-American States http://www.oei.es/en/Oei
OPSI Observatory of
Public Sector Innovation www.oecd.org/governance/observatory-public-sector-innovation/
OSCE Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe www.osce.org
PAFTAD
Pacific Trade and Development Conference www.pecc.org/coordinating_group.htm
PBEC Pacific-Basin
Economic Council www.pbec.org
PECC
Pacific Economic Co-operation Council www.pecc.org
SA
Summit of the Americas www.summit-americas.org
SADC
Southern Africa Development Co-operation * no home page
SCA
Science Councils of Asia www.scj.go.jp/en/sca/index.html
SCCAN Special
Coordinating Committee of ASEAN Nations; see ASEAN
Skoll
Global Threats Fund www.skollglobalthreats.org
SCO
Shanghai Cooperation Organization *
no home page
STS forum; Science and
Technology in Society forum www.stsforum.org
TAFTA Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement * no home page
TA IPR TransAtlantic IPR Portal http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/initiatives/ipr/index_en.htm
TICAD Tokyo International Conference on African Development http://www.ticad.net/ticad_field.html
TWAS The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World www.twas.org
TWNSO Third World Network of Scientific Organisations www.twnso.org
UN United Nations www.un.org
UNASUR Union of South American Nations www.unasursg.org/en
UNCTAD United Nations Council on Trade and Development www.unctad.org
UNDP United Nations Development Programme www.undp.org
UN Economical and Social Council www.un.org/esa/coordination/ecosoc
Economical Regional Commissions
· ECA Economical Commission for
Africa www.uneca.org
· ECE Economical Commission for
Europe www.unece.org
· ECLAC Economical Commission for
Latin America and the Caribbean www.eclac.org
· ESCAP Economical Commission for
Asia and the Pacific www.unescap.org
· ESCWA Economic and Social
Commission for Western Asia www.escwa.un.org
ICJ International Court of Justice www.icj-cij.org
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) www.uis.unesco.org
UNICEF United Nations Children’s Education Fund www.unicef.org
UNGA United Nations General Assembly www.un.org/ga
UN
Global Compact www.unglobalcompact.org
UNIS United Nations International School www.unis.org
WB World Bank www.wordbank.org
WFUNA World Federation of United Nations Association www.wfuna.org
WHO World Health Organisation www.who.nl
WTO World Trade Organization www.wto.org
*) No homepage or URL of its own
(April 2007; Google search).
**) Source (of most of the acronyms
and their meanings): IIAS, Asia
and Europe, more than two worlds (2004)
China
Bionet
(bioethics) www.bionet-china.org
Africa
www.researchsolutionsafrica.com
It is a free world of course
but it is a pity that some regular meetings or associations do not have a
website or a homepage with a list of links to subsequent organiser’s web pages
throughout the years. Or a clear point of contact. Sometimes Wikipedia has some
lists. To make a difference and to propel a platform to a next level, it would
be recommendable to have a cumulative record of results and a web page on legal
status and mission, as well as a list of member countries and a schedule upon
future meetings perhaps (specified for the levels of:
- policy: long term strategy
& objectives;
- coordinating executive
steering committee; medium term, orchestrating coordinating the execution of
programmes and projects to meet the objectives;
- working groups: short term,
executing single programmes or projects, using existing personnel and
facilities at operational level).
Since the world has become a
global village, hierarchical approaches for this sort of multilateral does not
work; all States are autonomous and do not answer to anyone but their own
people! The EU developed a new methodology to handle this, is might be useful
to test it in transcontinental approaches. It is called the Open Coordination
Method. It boils down to a small set of rules:
- any two or more States may
start an initiative, they should only be open about it, meaning:
- they should keep all others informed
about the plans and progress (by a public website for instances, allowing any
other State to check up on all documents, decisions etcetera);
- they should allow other States
to step in and join the initiative at any moment.