Afghanistan is a country.
Afghanistan . It is a member of the United Nations , the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , the Group of 77 , the Economic Cooperation Organization , and the Non-Aligned Movement . Group of 77 . The group was founded on 15 June 1964 , by the `` Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Countries '' issued at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ) . The Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ) is a group of states that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc . The purpose of the organization has been enumerated as to ensure `` the national independence , sovereignty , territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries '' in their `` struggle against imperialism , colonialism , neo-colonialism , racism , and all forms of foreign aggression , occupation , domination , interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics , '' by Fidel Castro in the Havana Declaration of 1979 . United Nations . At its founding , the UN had 51 member states ; there are now 193 .