http://www.commissionoceanindien.org/accueil/Indian Ocean Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_CommissionThe Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) is an intergovernmental organisation created in 1982 in Port-Louis, Mauritius and institutionalized in 1984 by the Victoria Agreement in the Seychelles. The IOC comprises of five countries in the Indian Ocean, these are: Union of the Comoros, France/Reunion Island, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles . Notwithstanding their different characteristics (Reunion is a French department; Mauritius and Seychelles are Middle Income Countries whereas Comoros and Madagascar are amongst the Least Developed Countries), the five islands share geographic proximity, natural resources and common development issues.
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