Acronyms

ALP Abkhazia Liberation Party

AMPC Assembly of the Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus

ASSR Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

CIS Commonwealth of Independent States

CISPKF CIS Peacekeeping Force

CMG Conflict Management Group

CMPC Confederation of the Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus

CPC Confederation of the Peoples of the Caucasus

CSCE Conference on Security and cooperation in Europe

CUG Citizens’ Union of Georgia

EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

ECU European Currency Unit

EU European Union

FOG Friends of Georgia

GUUAM Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova IA International Alert

ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross

IDP Internally Displaced Person

IMF International Monetary Fund

INGO International non-governmental organization

JCC Joint Control Commission

NATO North Atlantic Treaty organization

NG National Guard

NGO Non-governmental organization

NRC Norwegian Refugee Council

OSCE organization for Security and cooperation in Europe

PfP Partnership for Peace

PKF Peacekeeping force

SRSG Special Representative of the Secretary-General

SSR Soviet Socialist Republic

TACIS Technical Assistance to the CIS

TRACECA Transport Corridor Europe–Caucasus–Asia

UCI University of California, Irvine

UK United Kingdom

UN United Nations

UNDHA United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs

UNDP United Nations Development Programme

UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund

UNOCHA United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

UNOMIG United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia

UNV United Nations Volunteers

USA United States of America

USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

VUB Vrije Universiteit Brussel

WFP World Food Programme

- September 1999

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