Membership
Members of the IMO are 170 of the UN members and the Cook Islands. The starting member was the United Kingdom in 1949. The most recent member to join was Tuvalu, which became an IMO member in 2009.
Associate members are: Faroe Islands, Hong Kong and Macao.
Non-members are: Afghanistan, Andorra, Armenia, Belarus, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Mali, Micronesia, Nauru, Niger, Niue, Rwanda, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Vatican City, Zambia, and the states with limited recognition.
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