United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association | |
Linking Name: | United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association |
Admin Center Type: | Headquarters |
Languages Type: | Official language |
Languages: | English |
Leader Title1: | Chair |
Leader Name1: | Tasha Ebanks Garcia |
Leader Title2: | Secretary |
Leader Name2: | Tracy Knight |
Leader Title3: | Treasurer |
Leader Name3: | Chris Carnegy |
Established Event1: | Dependent Territories Conference |
Established Date1: | 2003 |
Official Website: | UKOTA |
The United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA) is an organisation that exists to promote the interests of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories and co-operation between them. It was established in 1993 during the first Dependent Territories Conference.[1]
The following 12 British Overseas Territories are full members of UKOTA:[2]
Akrotiri and Dhekelia is the only British Overseas Territory with a permanent civilian population, that is not a member of UKOTA. The other non-member British Overseas Territories are those whose population is entirely transitory, being either military or scientific personnel, or have been forcibly removed namely the British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.