JUSCANZ

{{Short description|Informal grouping of countries}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} The '''JUSCANZ Group''' is an informal, information-sharing coalition of like-minded countries at the United Nations Human Rights Council and other United Nations bodies, such as the Second, Third Committees<ref name="groups of member states">{{cite web |url=https://www.un.org/en/model-united-nations/groups-member-states |title=Groups of Member States |author= |date=n.d. |website= |publisher=United Nations |access-date=2024-10-26 }}</ref><ref name="MOFA"/> and UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD).<ref name="Statement">{{cite web |url=https://unctad.org/system/files/non-official-document/u15-gd-03-jz_en.pdf |title=Australia on behalf of the JUSCANNZ Group |author= |date=October 2021 |website=unctad.org |publisher=UNCTAD |pages= |quote=I am very pleased to make this statement on behalf of the JUSCANNZ group – comprising Japan, the United States of America, Canada, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Turkey, Switzerland and our newest member, the Republic of Korea.| access-date=2024-10-28}}</ref> In the United Nations Regional Grouping system, it is considered as a subsection of the Western European and Others Group (WEOG), as most of its members are members of that Group. Its aim is to counterbalance the sway of the European Union bloc in WEOG matters.

The name of the group is derived from the acronym of its founding members Japan, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.politic-ed.com/2020/03/30/what-is-juscanz-will-it-happen/|title=What is JUSCANZ - Will it ever happen?|last=Booten|first=Matthew|date=2020-03-30|website=Politic-Ed|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-27}}</ref>

== Role == The Group's role is mainly to act as a tool for information-sharing at the United Nations. Unlike the United Nations Regional Groups, JUSCANZ is not a policy-coordination mechanism.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}

Members of the Group are not expected to reach consensus positions on issues. Rather, at JUSCANZ meetings, members meet to share information on the status of resolutions and to flag potential problems or issues for other delegations.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}

== History == On 22 January 2010, Israel was permitted to join the Group for sessions at the United Nations Office at Geneva, but not at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, nor at the other two major office sites of Vienna and Nairobi.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unwatch.org/cms.asp?id=924493&campaign_id=63111 |title=First Time: Israel Admitted to UN Human Rights Caucus in Geneva |author= |date=27 January 2010 |website=UN Watch |access-date=13 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206194017/http://www.unwatch.org/cms.asp?id=924493&campaign_id=63111 |archive-date=6 February 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 11 February 2014, Israel was allowed to join the Group in all relevant United Nations Committees at Headquarters in New York.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.undispatch.com/why-israel-is-drinking-from-the-juice-cans-at-the-un |title=Why Israel Is Drinking from Juice Cans at the UN |author=Mark Leon Goldberg |date=11 February 2014 |website=UN Dispatch |access-date=13 May 2019}}</ref>

The Republic of Korea (South Korea) joined the Group in UNCTAD in 2021.<ref name="Statement"/> It had already been a member of the Group outside of UNCTAD previously.<ref name="upenn"/>

The United Kingdom joined the Group in 2021.<ref name="ukjoin"/>

== Members == While membership of the group is not fixed, and its membership has varied throughout its history, the main members that have partaken in meetings of the Group include:<ref name="upenn">{{cite web |url=https://penniur.upenn.edu/uploads/media/Klaus.pdf |title=The United Nations: Local Authorities in Four Frameworks |author=Ian Klaus |author2=Russel Singer |date=February 2018 |website=Penn Institute for Urban Research |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |page=4 |access-date=13 May 2019}}</ref><ref name="Statement"/><ref name="MOFA">{{cite web |url=https://www.mofa.go.kr/viewer/skin/doc.html?fn=20250919041311207.pdf&rs=/viewer/result/202509 |title=2025 유엔개황 |trans-title=Situation of the United Nations 2025 |author= |date=2024-09-27 |website=mofa.go.kr |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (South Korea) |pages=22, 160 |lang=ko| access-date=2025-09-25}}</ref>

* {{flagcountry|Andorra}}{{efn|name=fn1|Members of JUSCANZ in the Third Committee only}} * {{flagcountry|Australia}} * {{flagcountry|Canada}} * {{flagcountry|Iceland}}{{efn|name=fn1}} * {{flagcountry|Israel}}{{efn|name=fn3}}{{efn|name=fn2|Participating in JUSCANZ in the Second Committee on a case-by-case basis}} * {{flagcountry|Japan}} * {{flagcountry|South Korea}} * {{flagcountry|Liechtenstein}}{{efn|name=fn1}}{{efn|name=fn2}} * {{flagcountry|New Zealand}} * {{flagcountry|Norway}}{{efn|name=fn3|Members of JUSCANZ in the Third Committee and UNCTAD only}}{{efn|name=fn2}} * {{flagcountry|San Marino}}{{efn|name=fn1}} * {{flagcountry|Switzerland}} * {{flagcountry|Turkey}}{{efn|Member of JUSCANZ in the UNCTAD only}} * {{flagcountry|UK}}<ref name="ukjoin">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ecfr.eu/publications/summary/separation_anxiety_european_influence_at_the_un_after_brexit|title=Separation anxiety: European influence at the UN after Brexit|date=8 May 2018 |via=www.ecfr.eu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/post-brexit-diplomacy-at-the-un/|title=Post-Brexit diplomacy: Can the UK hope to exert leverage at the UN without recourse to the EU?|newspaper=British Politics and Policy at Lse |date=August 2, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/unctad15-uk-closing-statement|title=UNCTAD15: UK closing statement|website=GOV.UK|date=8 October 2021 |quote=In this spirit of collaboration, I am also pleased to announce that the United Kingdom will, henceforth, be joining the JUSCANNZ regional grouping at UNCTAD.}}</ref>{{efn|name=fn3}} * {{flagcountry|United States}}

Although Mexico is not a member of the Group, it participtes in JUSCANZ in the Second Committee on a case-by-case basis.<ref name="MOFA"/>

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