Intergovernmental organization
An intergovernmental organization IGO is an organization composed primarily of sovereign states identified to as member states, or of other organizations through formal treaties for handling/serving common interests and governed by international laws. IGOs are instituting by the treaty that acts as a charter devloping the group. Treaties are formed when lawful representatives governments of several states go through a ratification process, providing the IGO with an international legal personality. Intergovernmental organizations are an important aspect of public international law.
Intergovernmental organizations in a legal sense should be distinguished from simple groupings or coalitions of states, such(a) as the ] do established an administrative apparatus which was non deemed to cause been granted international legal personality. The broader concept wherein relations among three or more states are organized according toprinciples they hold in common is multilateralism.