from a federal state on the lines of the United States of America. But this is at the expense of the democratic potentialities of a full supranational union as conceived in the first Community. Other international organisations with some degree of integration The only union generally recognised as having achieved the status of a supranational union is the European Union. Although the Soviet Union was created under an initial ideological appearance of forming a supranational union, it never de facto functioned as one, and constitutionally was a federation; see Republics of the Soviet Union § Constitutional status for details. There are a number of other regional organisations that, while not supranational unions, have adopted or intend to adopt policies that may lead to a similar sort of integration in some respects. African Union (AU) Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Benelux, a political union of Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Though part of the EU, EU treaties contain an exception that EU law is subservient to Benelux integration. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Central American Integration System (SICA) Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (Gulf Cooperation council) (GCC) Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Union of South American Nations (USAN) Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Union State Organization of Turkic States Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Pacific Alliance Group of 77 (G77) is a coalition of 134 developing countries, designed to promote its members' collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations. Other organisations that have also discussed greater integration include: Arab League into an "Arab Union" Pacific Islands Forum into the "Pacific Union" Eurasian Customs Union into the "Eurasian Economic Union" Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) into the "Latin American Union" East African Community into the "East African Federation" See also Civic nationalism Constitutional patriotism Continental union Democratic globalization Devolution Economic union Federation History of the European Coal and Steel Community (1945–57) International human rights law International parliament List of economic communities List of free trade agreements List of military alliances List of supranational environmental agencies Multi-level governance Neofunctionalism New world order (Baháʼí) Regional integration Robert Schuman Schuman Declaration Staatenverbund Supranational aspects of international organizations Supranational law Transnational citizenship United Nations Parliamentary Assembly World government