Like-Minded Developing Countries

Short description: Negotiating block at UN and WTO

Party groupings.

The Like Minded-Group of Developing Countries (LMDC) is a group of developing countries who organise themselves as a block negotiators in international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, they represent more than 50% of the world's population.

According to a statement by the Chinese diplomat Sha Zukang in 2005, the member countries of the Like Minded Group are Algeria, Bangladesh, Belarus , Bhutan, China, Cuba, Egypt, India , Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan , the Philippines , Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.^[1]

However, following the LMDC countries who negotiate in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change fora, the members are Algeria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, India , Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mali, Nicaragua, Pakistan , Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Vietnam.