onomic Commission for Africa, Economic
Commission for Europe, Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific,
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia) and six functional
commissions (see Commission for Social Development, Commission on Human
Rights, Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Commission on the Status of Women,
Population Commission, and Statistical Commission);

members--(54) selected on a rotating basis from all regions
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_#_Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)

established--29 April 1958;

aim--to promote economic development as a regional commission of
the UN's ECOSOC;

members--(51) Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi,
Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo,
Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana,
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya,
Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique,
Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles,
Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo,
Tunisia, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe;

associate members--(3) France, Namibia, UK
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_#_Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE)--see
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
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_#_Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)

established--28 March 1947;

aim--to promote economic development as a regional commission of
the UN's ECOSOC;

members--(33) Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Byelorussian
Soviet Socialist Republic, Canada, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic,
US, USSR, Yugoslavia
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_#_Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA)--see Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
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_#_Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

established--25 February