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Abbreviations and acronyms
AP additional protocol
APLN Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and
Disarmament
ARF ASEAN Regional Forum
ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ATT arms trade treaty
AU African Union
BMD ballistic missile defence
BWC Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and
Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on
Their Destruction; Biological Weapons Convention
CANWFZ Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia
CARICOM Caribbean Community
CASA United Nations Coordinating Action on Small Arms
CBM confidence-building measure
CBSI Caribbean Basin Security Initiative
CCM Convention on Cluster Munitions
CCW Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain
Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively
Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects; Convention on Certain
Conventional Weapons
CD Conference on Disarmament
CFE Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty
CIFTA Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and
Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunitions, Explosives, and Other Related
Materials
ComNat National Commission to Combat Proliferation and Illicit Circulation
of Small Arms
CSA comprehensive safeguards agreement
CTBT Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
CTBTO Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
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