Editing Western Europe (section)

===UN regional groups: Western European and Others Group===
[[File:UN WEOG members.svg|thumb|upright=1.4|WEOG member and observer states]]
The [[Western European and Others Group]] is one of several unofficial [[United Nations Regional Groups|Regional Groups]] in the [[United Nations]] that act as [[voting bloc]]s and negotiation forums. Regional voting blocs were formed in 1961 to encourage voting to various UN bodies from different regional groups. The European members of the group are:<ref>[http://data.unaids.org/pub/Manual/2009/jc1682_governancehandbook_lr_en.pdf ''UNAIDS, The Governance Handbook'', January 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110109143548/http://data.unaids.org/pub/Manual/2009/jc1682_governancehandbook_lr_en.pdf |date=9 January 2011 }} (p. 29).</ref>
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*[[Andorra]]
*[[Austria]]
*[[Belgium]]
*[[Denmark]]
*[[Finland]]
*[[France]]
*[[Germany]]
*[[Greece]]
*[[Iceland]]
*[[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
*[[Italy]]
*[[Liechtenstein]]
*[[Luxembourg]]
*[[Malta]]
*[[Monaco]]
*[[Netherlands]]
*[[Norway]]
*[[Portugal]]
*[[San Marino]]
*[[Spain]]
*[[Sweden]]
*[[Switzerland]]
*[[Turkey]]
*[[United Kingdom]]
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In addition, [[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[Israel]] and [[New Zealand]] are members of the group, with the [[United States]] as observer.