Frequently Used Abbreviations
U.S. Government Assistance to and Cooperative Activities with Eurasia
Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
January 2004
Report
ATA -- Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program
BW -- biological weapons
CAAEF -- Central Asian - American Enterprise Fund
CRDF -- Civilian Research and Development Foundation
CSD -- Child Survival and Diseases Fund
CTR -- Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
CW -- chemical weapons
CY -- calendar year
DoD -- U.S. Department of Defense
DOTS -- Directly Observed Therapy, Short Course
E&E -- USAID Bureau for Europe and Eurasia
EBRD -- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EDA -- Excess Defense Articles
EPA -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EU -- European Union
EUCOM -- U.S. European Command
EUR/ACE -- Office of the Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia
Eximbank -- U.S. Export-Import Bank
EXBS -- Export Control and Related Border Security Assistance Program
FDI -- Foreign Direct Investment
FMF -- Foreign Military Financing
FSA -- FREEDOM Support Act*
FY -- fiscal year
GDP -- gross domestic product
GUUAM -- Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova Group
HIV/AIDS -- Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
IAS -- International Accounting Standards
IBRD -- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
ICBM -- intercontinental ballistic missile
IDP -- internally displaced person
IFIs -- international financial institutions
IMET -- International Military Education and Training
IMF -- International Monetary Fund
IOM -- International Organization for Migration
IPR -- intellectual property rights
ISTC -- International Science and Technology Center
IV -- International Visitor (Program)
m -- million
MoD -- Ministry of Defense
MOU -- memorandum of understanding
MPC&A -- material protection, control and accounting
MT -- metric ton
MVD -- Ministry of Internal Affairs
NADR -- Non-Proliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related Programs Account
NATO -- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NGO -- non-governmental organization
NIS -- New Independent States of the former Soviet Union (now known as Eurasia)
NPP -- nuclear power plant
NPT -- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
OPIC -- Overseas Private Investment Corporation
ODIHR -- OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
OSCE -- Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
PAS -- Public Affairs Section
PCV -- Peace Corps volunteer
PfP -- Partnership for Peace
PKO -- Peacekeeping Operations Account
P.L. -- Public Law
PPP -- purchasing-power parity
PSA -- production-sharing agreement
PVO -- private voluntary organization
RI -- Regional Initiative
RFE -- Russian Far East
SMEs -- small to medium-sized enterprises
SRSA -- Silk Road Strategy Act
START -- Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
STCU -- Science and Technology Center - Ukraine
TACIS -- The European Union's technical assistance program for Eurasia
TB -- tuberculosis
TIP -- trafficking in persons
TUSRIF -- The U.S.-Russia Investment Fund
UNHCR -- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNICEF -- United Nations Children's Fund
UNODC -- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
USAID -- U.S. Agency for International Development
USDA -- U.S. Department of Agriculture
USG -- U.S. Government
USTDA -- U.S. Trade and Development Agency
WFP -- United Nations World Food Program
WHO -- World Health Organization
WMD -- weapons of mass destruction
WNISEF -- Western NIS Enterprise Fund
WTO -- World Trade Organization
*Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support Act
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