ABM Anti-ballistic missile
AC Alternative Current
ACC Arab Cooperation Council
ACCT Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation
ADB Asian Development Bank
AGM Annual general meeting
AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
A Level Advanced Level
AMU Arab Maghrib Union
APC All Parties Conference
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nations
ASPAC Asian and Pacific Council
AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System
BASIC Beginner's All - purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
BCCI Board of Control for Cricket in India
BIOS Basic Input / Output System
CACM Central American Common Market
CAD Computer - Aided Design
CAM Computer - Aided Manufacturing
CARICOM Caribbean Community and Common Market
CBMs Confidence Building Measures
CCTA Commission for Technical Cooperation in Africa
CD Compact Disk
CIA* Central Investigation Agency (USA), Criminal Investigation Agency (Pakistan)
CICA Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building in Asia
CIS Council of Independent States
CLI
CNG Compressed Natural Gas
CNN Cable News Network
COBOL Common Business - Oriented Language
COMECON Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Comsat Communications Satellite Corporation
CPU Central Processing Unit
CV Curriculum vitae
D-8 Developing Eight
DHS Department of Homeland Security (Created in USA in 2003)
DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid
DOS Disk Operating System
DVD Digital versatile disk
ECG Electrocardiograph
ECO Economic Cooperation Organisation
EFTA European Free Trade Association
E.g. Exempli gratia (For Example)
e-mail Electronic Mail
EMS European Monetary System
ESCAP Economic and Social Council for Asia and Pacific
ESCLA Economic and Social Council for Latin America
EURATOM European Atomic Energy Community
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FM Frequency modulation
GCC Gulf Cooperation Council
GCE General Certificate of Education
GCSE General Certificate of Secondary Education
HIV Human immunodeficiency virus
HRW Human Rights Watch
HTML Hypertext mark-up language
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation
ICFTU International Confederation of Free Trade Union
ICJ International Court of Justice/ International Commission of Jurists
ICM ***
ICRC International Committee of Red Cross
IFC International Finance Corporation
INS Immigration and Nationalisation Services
Intel Integrated Electronics
INTERPOL International Criminal Police
IRA Irish Republican Army
IRBM Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
ISO International Standards Organization
ISP Internet Service Provider
KGB Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (State Security Committee of USSR)
LAIA Latin American Integration Association
LAN Local Area Network
Laser Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
LBW Leg before wicket
LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas
LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam
MP Member Parliament
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASD *** National Association of Securities Dealers
NGO Non-governmental Organization
NIFTIER North American Free Trade Agreement
NPT Non-Proliferation Treaty
OAS *** Organisation of American States
OAU Organisation of African Union
OECS Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
OIC Organisation of Islamic Conference
OPANAL Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America
OSCE Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
OTC *** Over the counter (Securities)
POTA Prevention of Terrorism Act
RAM Random - Access Memory
RAW Research and Analysis Wing (Indian Intelligence Agency)
ROM Read - Only Memory
SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
SAF Games South Asian Federation Games
SAFTA South Asian Free Trade Area
SIM Subscriber’s Identification Module
SJC Supreme Judicial Council
UNFPA United Nations Fund for Population
USAID *** United States Agency for International Development
USSR Union of Socialist Soviet Republic
VGA Video Graphics Array
WAN Wide Area Network
WEF With Effect From
WFTU World Federation of Trade Unions
WMDs Weapons of Mass Destruction