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The World Esperanto Association ((エスペラント:Universala Esperanto-Asocio), UEA) is the largest international organization of Esperanto speakers, with members in 121 countries () and in official relations with the United Nations and UNESCO. In addition to individual members, seventy national Esperanto organizations are affiliated with UEA. Its current president is the Canadian professor Mark Fettes. The magazine “Esperanto” is the maing organ used by UEA to inform its members about everything happening in the Esperanto community. UEA was founded in 1908 by the Swiss journalist Hector Hodler and others, and is now headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The organization has an office at the United Nations building in New York City. == Structure and affiliated organizations == According to its 1980 statutes (Statuto de UEA), the World Esperanto Association has two kinds of members: * individual members join the association directly, paying a fee to the Rotterdam headquarters or to the chief delegate in their country. These members receive the UEA Yearbook and receive the UEA services. * ''asociaj membroj'', those members of the organizations that joined UEA. These members are administered by their respective organizations. It can be a national or a specialist organization. This kind of membership is for the person in question a mere symbolical membership. The highest organ of UEA, the Komitato, has members (''komitatanoj'') elected in three different ways: * An organization sends one ''komitatano'' for every 1,000 national members to the Komitato, but at least one. Most national organizations have only one ''komitatano''. * Per 1,000 individual members, the individual members can choose one member to the Komitato. * Both previous groups by-elect more ''komitatanoj'', up to one third of their numbers. The Komitato elects a board, the ''Estraro''. The ''Estraro'' installs a general director and sometimes additionally a director. The general director and his staff work at the UEA headquarters, ''Oficejo de UEA'', in Rotterdam. An individual member can become a ''delegito'', a 'delegate'. This means that he serves as a local contact person for Esperanto and UEA members in his town. A ''ĉefdelegito'' (chief delegate) is someone installed also by the UEA headquarters, but with the task to collect the member fees in a given country. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Esperanto Association」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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