1. International Multilateral Organizations Plan: 1. Features of international intergovernmental organizations 2. The objectives of the IMO 3. Functions of the IMO

2. As a special form of multilateral diplomacy, they are established on the basis of an international agreement concluded between three or more parties to achieve common goals of cooperation, have a permanent organizational structure. Such organizations are endowed with the status of the subject of international law, which allows them to trade on their own, acquire, be a party agreements, including international treaties

3. By IMO include, for example, the United Nations, the Universal Postal Union, the International Telecommunication Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the International Civil Defence Organization, European Center for Nuclear Research, Council of Europe, the Organization of American States, International Monetary Fund. Currently, there are from two hundred to several thousand IMO

4. International businesses and transnational non-governmental organizations are different from IMO in its composition - their members are individuals or legal entities. The legal framework of their activities are national systems of the countries where they are established or activities. The objectives of these organizations - to meet individual, group, and in some cases, the public needs.

5. They are also based on international treaties, composed of states have governing bodies. The main difference is that the sites are IMO talks on a variety of matters within its competence and integration associations are created for harmonizing the actions of states, mostly in the liberalization of trade and economic interactions.

6. The purpose of the organization acts as the starting point for its activities. The main objectives set before IMO States. They are usually described in general terms, and recorded in the statutory and other guidance documents. Goal towards which the activity is actually directed IMO, are produced during operation of the organization and may change over time. In some cases, the changes are so significant that it necessary to make corrections to the constituent documents, or even the adoption of new statutes.

7. The dual nature of IMO determines for the purposes of the fact that their production is also a joint political and diplomatic act states, and bureaucratic procedure involving officials and employees of the organization. The States develop and set goals for the organization as a result of complicated approval procedures, and sometimes sharp political struggle.

8. Role IMO in the international community, as well as other actors, is determined by their functions. The meaning of "function" is understood by researchers in different ways, so you need to be clarified. In the literature on international organizations, the function is often identified with the main activities or competencies

9. Despite the fact that the organization is reasonable, rational and controlled, its relationship with the environment is formed objectively and varies depending on the specific historical conditions. States - members of IMO through their representatives, and employees of the organization, of course, suggest that it will perform certain operations and problem-solving, but their implementation yields only partial regulation. The results will always be what is expected, since we are dealing with a living system that is open to interaction with the living environment.

10. The bodies are created by a decision of the participants are fully controlled by the organization and its members, and their actions are aimed at achieving the common goals of the international structure. Creation of line with the statutory and other documents, and hence the norms of international law.

11. In fact, they are the result of interaction between the conflicting interests of different Some international organizations provided such agencies as the presidency. Chairman legally becomes a member of the organization, and actually performs the presidency to a senior official of that countries, pressure groups and social forces

12. Mission are external bodies, created by some IMO. They conduct operations in a country that is part of the organization or the recipient of its aid. There are observation mission, the mission of humanitarian assistance, technical missions.