Acronyms

ACDA Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

ANAD Accord de Non-Aggression et d’Assistance en Matière de Defense

CEDEAO Communauté Économique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest

CFA Communauté financière africaine

CNCCAI Commission Nationale pour la Collecte et le Contrôle des Armes Illicites

DPA Department of Political Affairs

ECCAS Economic Community of Central African States

ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States

IFRI Institut Français des Relations Internationales

MISAB International Mission to Monitor the Bangui Agreements

MPLA Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola

NGO Non-Governmental Organisation

NISAT Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers

NUPI Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

OAS Organisation of American States

OAU Organisation of African Unity

ONG Organisation Non-Gouvernemental

ONU Organisation des Nations Unies

OUA Organisation de l’Unité Africaine

PCASED Programme for Coordination and Assistance on Security and Development

PNUD Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement

SADC South African Development Community

SIPRI Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

START Strategic Arms Reduction Talks

TNP Traité sur la non-prolifération des armes nucléaires

UEMOA Union des Exposants de Machines et d’Outillage Agricoles

UN United Nations

UNDP United Nations Development Programme

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation

UNIDIR United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

UNITA União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola

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