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Table 2.-The Members of the "Group of 77," Fall 1980"
1. Afghanistan
2, Algeria
3. Angola
4. Argentina
5. Bahamas
6. Bahrain
7. Bangladesh
8. Barbados
9. Benin
10, Bhutan
11. Bolivia
12 . Botswana
13. Brazil
14. Burma
15. Burundi
16. Cape Verde
17. Ce tra/ African /?epub/ic
18. Chad
19. Chile
20. Colombia
21. Comoros
22. Congo
23. Costa Rica
24. Cuba
25. Cyprus
26. Democratic Kampuchea
27. Democratic People's
Republic of Korea
28. Democratic Yemen
29. Djibouti
30. Dominica
31. Dominican Repubiic
32. Ecuador
33. Egypt
34. El Salvador
35. Equatorial Guinea
36. Ethiopia
37. Fiji
38. Gabon
39. Gambia
40. Ghana
41. Grenada42. Guatemala
43. Guinea
44. Guinea-Bissau
45. Guyana
46. Haiti
47. Honduras
48. India
49. Indonesia
50. /ran
51. Iraq
52. Ivory Coast
53. Jamaica
54. Jordan
55. Kenya
56. Kuwait
57. Lao People Democratic
ffepub/ic
58. Lebanon
59. Lesotho
60. Liberia
61. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
62. Madagascar
63. Malawi
64. Malaysia
65. Maldives
66. Mali
67. Malta
68. Mauritania
69. Mauritius
70. Mexico
71. Morocco
72. Mozambique
73. Nepal
74. Nicaragua
75. Niger
76. Nigeria
77. Oman
78. Pakistan
79. Palestine Liberation
Organization
80. Panama
81. Papua New Guinea
82. Paraguay83. Peru
84. Philippines
85. Qatar
86. Republic of Korea
87. Romania
88. Rwanda
89, Saint Lucia
90, Samoa
91. Sao Tome and Principe
92. Saudi Arabia
93. Senegal
94. Seychelles
95. Sierra Leone
96. Singapore
97. Solomon Islands
98. Somalia
99. Sri Lanka
100. St. Vincentand the
Grenadines
101. Sudan
102. Suriname
103. Swaziland
104. Syrian Arab Republic
105. Thailand
106. Togo
107. Tonga
108. Trinidad and Tobago
109. Tunisia
110. Uganda
111. United Arab Emirates
112. United Republic of
Cameroon
113. United RepubAc of I
Tanzania
114. Upper Volta
115. Uruguay
116. Venezuela
117. Viet Nam-
118. Yemen
119. Yugoslavia
120. Zaire
121. Zambia
122. Zimbabwe'The Group of 77 now numbers 122 The 77 signatories of the
Before Republic of Viet Nam
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Developing countries have recently begun to
ace greater emphasis on access to technology,
eluding space technology, asserting that without
chnical expertise they will be relegated to per
anent economic inferiority. The 1979 U.N. Con
rence on Science and Technology for Develop
ment (UNCSTD) helped to crystallize these sen
nents: it pointed to the unequal distribution of
chnology as a primary factor in the dependent
)sition of developing countries and called for a
major effort to transfer technology from North
South.1964 Joint Declaration of the Seventy Seven are in Italics
The New World Information Order (NWIO).
In many ways similar to the New World Eco
nomic Order, the proposals for NWIO stem from
assertions by developing countries that: 1) they
do not have equal access either to relevant infor
mation or to the technologies needed to acquire
and disseminate it, and are hence at a disadvan
tage in economic and political dealings with the
North; 2) news coverage of their countries is both
sparse and slanted, due to the cultural and polit
ical biases of Western reporters; and 3) Western
media bring about cultural and economic disrup
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