Abbreviations and conventions

Chapter:

Source:

SIPRI Yearbook 2013

• ABM

  Anti-ballistic missile

• ACV

  Armoured combat vehicle

• 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

• ASAT

  Anti-satellite

• 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

• BW

  Biological weapon/warfare

• CADSP

  Common African Defence and Security Policy

• CAR

  Central African Republic

• CBM

  Confidence-building measure

• CBRN

  Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear

• 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

• 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

• CSTO

  Collective Security Treaty Organization

• CTBT

  Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

• CTBTO

  Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

• CTR

  Cooperative Threat Reduction

• 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

• ENP

  European Neighbourhood Policy

• ERW

  Explosive remnants of war

• EU

  European Union

• FATF

  Financial Action Task Force

• FMCT

  Fissile material cut-off treaty

• FSC

  Forum for Security Co-operation (of the OSCE)

• FY

  Financial year

• FYROM

  Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

• G8

  Group of Eight (industrialized states)

• GCC

  Gulf Cooperation Council

• GDP

  Gross domestic product

• GGE

  Group of government experts

• GLCM

  Ground-launched cruise missile

• GNEP

  Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

• GTRI

  Global Threat Reduction Initiative

• 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

• ICTR

  International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

• ICTY

  International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

• IED

  Improvised explosive device

• IFS

  Instrument for Stability

• IGAD

  Intergovernmental Authority on Development

• IGC

  Intergovernmental conference

• INDA

  International non-proliferation and disarmament assistance

• INF

  Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (Treaty)

• IRBM

  Intermediate-range ballistic missile

• ISAF

  International Security Assistance Force

• JCG

  Joint Consultative Group (of the CFE Treaty)

• LEU

  Low-enriched uranium

• MANPADS

  Man-portable air defence system

• MDGs

  Millennium Development Goals

• MIRV

  Multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle

• MOTAPM

  Mines other than anti-personnel mines

• MTCR

  Missile Technology Control Regime

• NAM

  Non-Aligned Movement

• NATO

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• NBC

  Nuclear, biological and chemical (weapons)

• NGO

  Non-governmental organization

• NNWS

  Non-nuclear weapon state

• NPT

  Non-Proliferation Treaty

• NRF

  NATO Response Force

• NSG

  Nuclear Suppliers Group

• NWFZ

  Nuclear weapon-free zone

• 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

  Organization of the Islamic Conference

• 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

• PRT

  Provincial reconstruction team

• PSC

  Peace and Security Council (of the African Union)

• PSC

  Private security company

• PSI

  Proliferation Security Initiative

• R&D

  Research and development

• SAARC

  South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation

• SADC

  Southern African Development Community

• SALW

  Small arms and light weapons

• SAM

  Surface-to-air missile

• SCO

  Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

• SCSL

  Special Court for Sierra Leone

• 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

• SSM

  Surface-to-surface missile

• SSR

  Security sector reform

• START

  Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

• TLE

  Treaty-limited equipment

• UAE

  United Arab Emirates

• UNASUR

  Unión de Naciones Suramericanas (Union of South American Nations)

• UAS

  Unmanned aerial system

• UAV

  Unmanned aerial vehicle

• UCAV

  Unmanned combat air vehicle

• UN

  United 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

• WMDFZ

  WMD-free zone