International Black Sea Club

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International Black Sea Club is an international non-governmental organisation uniting several cities on the Black Sea and in its vicinity. It has the status of Observer in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation oranisation and the special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. It was created in 1992 in Odessa, Ukraine and its current president is Volkan Canalioğlu, the mayor of Trabzon.

24 cities are its members:

•  Bulgaria - Burgas, Varna;
•  Georgia - Poti, Batumi, Sukhumi (capital of  Abkhazia);
•  Greece - Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Kavala;
•  Italy - Trieste;
•  Moldova - Tiraspol (capital of  Transnistria);
•  Romania - Constanţa, Galaţi;
•  Russia - Azov, Taganrog;
•  Turkey - Trabzon, Samsun, Izmit;
•  Ukraine - Odessa, Mykolaiv, Sevastopol, Ilyichevsk, Kherson, Yuzhny, Mariupol, Yalta, Feodosiya;