The 9th G-15 summit was held at Montego Bay in Jamaica on 10–12 February 1999.Muralidharan, Sukumar. "Elusive Consensus," Frontline (India). Vol. 16, No. 05, 27 February 1999; retrieved 2011-08-25
The summit agenda of the Group of 15 (G-15)The official website adopts the "G-15" orthography (with a hyphen) in order to distinguish an abbreviated reference to this group in contrast with other similarly named entities. encompassed a range of issues.
The gathering brought together leaders, representatives and policymakers from non-aligned nations. African G-15 nations are Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and Zimbabwe. Those from Asia are India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka. Latin American G-15 nations include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.
Overview
The Group of 15 was established at the Ninth Non-Aligned Movement summit in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in September 1989.Prematillake, Tharindu. "Lanka Heads Powerful G-15 Serving Collective Interests," The Nation (Colombo). 22 May 2010.
The G-15 is composed of countries from Africa, Asia, North America and South America. These non-aligned nations joined together to create a forum to foster cooperation and develop information which can be presented to other international groups, such as the World Trade Organization and the Group of Eight. The G-15 nations have a common goal of enhanced growth and prosperity. The group aims to encourage cooperation among developing countries in the areas of investment, trade, and technology.
Leaders at the summit Those G-15 nations represented at the summit were Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jamaica, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.Afrasiabi, Kaveh L. "Cool G-15 heads take the heat," Asia Times (Hong Kong). 15 May 2010; retrieved 2011-08-26 The group's membership has expanded to 17 countries, but the name has remained unchanged.
The leaders of G-15 nations are core contributors in summit meetings.Rieffel, Lex. "Regional Voices in Global Governance: Looking to 2010 (Part IV)," Brookings. 27 March 2009. but only some of the heads-of-state were at the Caracas event: - Atal Behari Vajpayee, Prime Minister - Percival James Patterson, Prime Minister - Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister - Abdulsalami Abubakar, President - Abdou Diouf, President , Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, Prime Minister - Hugo Chávez, President. - Robert Gabriel Mugabe, President
Priorities The G-15 nations perceive an ongoing need to expand dialogue with the G8 nations. The G-15 want to help bridge the gap between developing countries and the more developed and industrialized nations.
Issues G-15 nations are united by shared perceptions of global economic issues; and the G-15 provides a structure for developing common strategies for dealing with these issues.
G15 nations have joined together in hopes of escaping from the more polemical atmosphere in other multinational groups and organizations, such as the Group of 77 (G-77).
Within the G-15, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico did not support the confrontationist posture which was adopted by Malaysia.
Notes
References Chauhan, Sandeep. (1997). Demand for New International Economic Order. New Delhi: MD Publications. ; OCLC 222017407
External links G-15 official website