International Contact Group
International Contact Groups are "informal, non-permanent international bodies that are created ad hoc, with the purpose of coordinating international actors in their aim of managing a peace and security crisis in a specific state or region (single-issue). They are founded and formed out of by states and/or International Organizations/Regional Organizations. They do not have own administrative structures, but are official announced and meet periodically." Since 1977, at least 27 ICGs have been formed.
Examples of such groups include:
- OSCE Minsk Group
- Western Contact Group, Namibia, 1977
- Contact Group (Balkans) (1994)
- International Contact Group (Basque politics)
- International Contact Group on Liberia (1996)
- International Contact Group for Libya (2015)
- International Contact Group on the Mano River Basin (2002)
- Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (since 2008)
- Friends of Syria Group, an International Contact group for Syria (London 11)
- International Somalia Contact Group (since 1998)
- International Contact Group, part of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro for the Southern Philippines Peace Process (2009)
- International Contact Group on Venezuela (since 2019)
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