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Contents

SIPRI Yearbook 2017

SIPRI Yearbook 2017

Abbreviations and conventions

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SIPRI Yearbook 2017

  • ABM

    Anti-ballistic missile

  • AG

    Australia Group

  • ALCM

    Air-launched cruise missile

  • APC

    Armoured personnel carrier

  • APEC

    Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation

  • APM

    Anti-personnel mine

  • APT

    ASEAN Plus Three

  • ARF

    ASEAN Regional Forum

  • ASEAN

    Association of Southeast Asian Nations

  • ATT

    Arms Trade Treaty

  • ATTU

    Atlantic-to-the Urals (zone)

  • AU

    African Union

  • BCC

    Bilateral Consultative Commission (of the Russian–US New START treaty)

  • BMD

    Ballistic missile defence

  • BSEC

    Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation

  • BTWC

    Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

  • CAR

    Central African Republic

  • CBM

    Confidence-building measure

  • CBSS

    Council of the Baltic Sea States

  • CBW

    Chemical and biological weapon/warfare

  • CCM

    Convention on Cluster Munitions

  • CCW

    Certain Conventional Weapons (Convention)

  • CD

    Conference on Disarmament

  • CDS

    Consejo de Defensa Suramericano (South American Defence Council)

  • CEEAC

    Communauté Economique des Etats de l’Afrique Centrale (Economic Community of Central African States, ECCAS)

  • CFE

    Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (Treaty)

  • CFSP

    Common Foreign and Security Policy (of the EU)

  • CICA

    Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building Measures in Asia

  • CIS

    Commonwealth of Independent States

  • COPAX

    Conseil de Paix et de Sécurité de l’Afrique Centrale (Central Africa Peace and Security Council)

  • CSBM

    Confidence- and security-building measure

  • CSDP

    Common Security and Defence Policy (of the EU)

  • CSTO

    Collective Security Treaty Organization

  • CTBT

    Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

  • CTBTO

    Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

  • CW

    Chemical weapon/warfare

  • CWC

    Chemical Weapons Convention

  • DDR

    Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration

  • DPKO

    UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations

  • DPRK

    Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)

  • DRC

    Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • EAEC

    European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom)

  • EAPC

    Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council

  • ECOWAS

    Economic Community of West African States

  • EDA

    European Defence Agency

  • EDA

    Excess Defense Articles

  • ERW

    Explosive remnants of war

  • EU

    European Union

  • FATF

    Financial Action Task Force

  • FMCT

    Fissile material cut-off treaty

  • FSC

    Forum for Security Cooperation (of the OSCE)

  • FY

    Financial year

  • FYROM

    Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

  • G7

    Group of Seven (industrialized states)

  • GCC

    Gulf Cooperation Council

  • GDP

    Gross domestic product

  • GGE

    Group of government experts

  • GLCM

    Ground-launched cruise missile

  • GUAM

    Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova

  • HCOC

    Hague Code of Conduct

  • HEU

    Highly enriched uranium

  • IAEA

    International Atomic Energy Agency

  • ICBM

    Intercontinental ballistic missile

  • ICC

    International Criminal Court

  • ICJ

    International Court of Justice

  • IED

    Improvised explosive device

  • IGAD

    Intergovernmental Authority on Development

  • INF

    Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (Treaty)

  • ISAF

    International Security Assistance Force

  • JCG

    Joint Consultative Group (of the CFE Treaty)

  • LEU

    Low-enriched uranium

  • MDGs

    Millennium Development Goals (of the UN)

  • MIRV

    Multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle

  • MRBM

    Medium-range ballistic missile

  • MTCR

    Missile Technology Control Regime

  • NAM

    Non-Aligned Movement

  • NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  • NGO

    Non-governmental organization

  • NPT

    Non-Proliferation Treaty

  • NSG

    Nuclear Suppliers Group

  • NWS

    Nuclear weapon state

  • OAS

    Organization of American States

  • OCCAR

    Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en matière d’Armement (Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation)

  • ODA

    Official development assistance

  • OECD

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

  • OHCHR

    Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

  • OIC

    Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

  • OPANAL

    Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe (Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean)

  • OPCW

    Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

  • OPEC

    Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

  • OSCC

    Open Skies Consultative Commission

  • OSCE

    Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

  • P5

    Five permanent members of the UN Security Council

  • PFP

    Partnership for Peace

  • PSC

    Peace and Security Council (of the African Union)

  • PSI

    Proliferation Security Initiative

  • R&D

    Research and development

  • SADC

    Southern African Development Community

  • SALW

    Small arms and light weapons

  • SAM

    Surface-to-air missile

  • SCO

    Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

  • SDGs

    Sustainable Development Goals (of the UN)

  • SICA

    Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana (Central American Integration System)

  • SLBM

    Submarine-launched ballistic missile

  • SLCM

    Sea-launched cruise missile

  • SORT

    Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty

  • SRBM

    Short-range ballistic missile

  • SRCC

    Sub-Regional Consultative Commission

  • START

    Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

  • TLE

    Treaty-limited equipment

  • UAE

    United Arab Emirates

  • UAV

    Unmanned aerial vehicle

  • UCAV

    Unmanned combat air vehicle

  • UN

    United Nations

  • UNASUR

    Unión de Naciones Suramericanas (Union of South American Nations)

  • UNDP

    UN Development Programme

  • UNHCR

    UN High Commissioner for Refugees

  • UNODA

    UN Office for Disarmament Affairs

  • UNROCA

    UN Register of Conventional Arms

  • WA

    Wassenaar Arrangement

  • WMD

    Weapon(s) of mass destruction

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