Indian Ocean Commission
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The Indian Ocean Commission is an intergovernmental organisation that links five African Indian Ocean nations — i.e. Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, and Seychelles. There are also eight obser
COI Logo in English Jpeg Portrait
Jérémie Bonnelame 2003
Caabi El Yachroutu Mohamed
Callixte d’Offay
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta, officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, and commonly known as the Order of Malta or the Knights o
Indian Ocean Commission
…Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion (France), and Seychelles. There are also eight observers as of August 2025: China, the European Union, La Francophonie, the Order of Malta, India, Japan, the United Nations and South Korea. The IOC was created in 1982 in Port-Louis, Mauritius, and institutionalised in 1984 by the Victoria…
Blessed Gerard, founder of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. Copper engraving by Laurent Cars, about 1725.
Portrait of an unknown Knight of Malta, by Titian, c. 1508, Uffizi
The Battle of Lepanto (1571), unknown artist, late 16th century
Emperor Paul of Russia wearing the Crown of the Grand Master of the Order of Malta (1799)