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Membership

YEAR OF ADMISSION MEMBERS
1945 Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Belarus (formerly Byelorussia), Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia (readmitted in 1993 as two separate states, the Czech and Slovak Republics), Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, the Russian Federation (formerly the USSR), Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia
1946 Afghanistan, Iceland, Sweden, Thailand
1947 Pakistan, Yemen (formerly Yemen Arab Republic)
1948 Myanmar (formerly Burma)
1949 Israel
1950 Indonesia
1955 Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia (formerly Kampuchea), Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Lao People's Democratic Republic (formerly Laos), Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sri Lanka
1956 Japan, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia
1957 Ghana, Malaysia
1958 Guinea
1960 Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Gabon, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Togo, Zaire
1961 Mauritania, Mongolia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania
1962 Algeria, Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda

Membership

YEAR OF ADMISSION MEMBERS
1963 Kenya, Kuwait
1964 Malawi, Malta, Zambia
1965 Gambia, Maldives, Singapore
1966 Barbados, Botswana, Guyana, Lesotho
1967 People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (since 1990, merged with Yemen)
1968 Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius, Swaziland
1970 Fiji
1971 Bahrain, Bhutan, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
1973 Bahamas, Germany (formerly the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany)
1974 Bangladesh, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau
1975 Cape Verde, Comoros, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Suriname
1976 Angola, Samoa, Seychelles
1977 Djibouti, Vietnam
1978 Dominica, Solomon Islands
1979 St. Lucia
1980 St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Zimbabwe
1981 Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Vanuatu
1983 St. Kitts and Nevis
1984 Brunei Darussalam
1990 Liechtenstein, Namibia,
1991 Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Estonia, Federated States of Micronesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Marshall Islands, Republic of Korea
1992 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Krgyz Republic, Republic of Moldova, San Marino, Slovenia,
1993 Andorra, Czech Republic, Eritrea, Monaco, Slovak Republic, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
1994 Palau
1999 Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga
2000 Tuvalu, Serbia and Montenegro
2002 Switzerland, East Timor (Timor Leste)
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