Last updated: 2 December 2004

APMBC / Ottawa Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention
APMBT / Anti-personnel Mine Ban Treaty
BHCD / Bosnia and Herzegovina Commission for Demining
CAAAPM / Chairman’s Agenda for Action on Anti-personnel Mines
CAM / National Steering-Committee Authority (Burundi)
CEHAHMI (NMACC) / National Mine Action Coordination Centre
CHAP / Common Humanitarian Action Plan
CMAO / Central Mine Action Office
CMATS / CentralMineActionTraining School
CMCO / Central Mine Clearance Office
CPSCA / Council for Peace and Security in Central Africa
DLA / Dushanbe Landmine Conference
DPKO / Department of Peace Keeping Operations
ERW / Explosive Remnants of war
GICHD / Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining
HCACD / Humanitarian Ceasefire agreement on the conflict in Darfur
HCAD / Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement for Darfur
HMAP / Humanitarian Mine Action Programme
ICBL / International Campaign for Banning landmines
IDP / Internally Displaced Person
IMMC / International Meeting on Mine Clearance
IMSMA / International Strategy for Mine Action
ISHMCO / International Standards for humanitarian Mine Clearance Operations
IWC / Inhumane Weapons Convention/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
MACC / Mine Action Coordination Centre
MAG / Mine Advisory Group
MAS / Mine Action Section/Mine Action Service
MASG / Mine Action Supporting Group
MBT / Mine Ban Treaty
MCAMCA / Mine Clearance Assistance Mission in Central America
MCP / Mine Clearance Programme
MCPG / Mine Clearance Policy Group
MCPU / Mine Clearance policy Unit
MCRM / Mine Clearance Reporting Mechnism
MCTF / Mine Clearance Task force
MRE / Mine Risk Education
NHMAP / National humanitarian Mine Action Programme
NMACC / National Mine Action Coordination Centre
NMAP / National Mine Action Plan
NMCC / National Mine Clearance Commission
OIAS / Organization of Inter-America States
OMCAR / Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation
ONUB / Operation des Nations Unies au Burundi
SAPAM / Seven-point Action Programme on Anti-personnel Mines
SCGSOC / Standing Committee on the General Status and Operation of the Convention
SCMCRT / Standing Committee on Mine Clearance and Related Technologies
SCMMAMAT / Standing Committee on Mine Clearance, Mine Awareness and Mine Action Technologies
SCVA / Standing Committee on Victim Assistance and Social-Economic Reintegration
STF/Sub-trust Fund / Sub-trust Fund for Support to the Development of National Mine Clearance Capacity
TCBAM / Treaty Conference to sign A Ban on Anti-personnel Mines
TFMC / Trust Fund for Mine Clearance
TFMCBH / Trust Fund for Mine Clearance in Bosnia and Herzegovina
UNDPFMCP / UNDP Trust Fund for Mozambique Mine Clearance Programme
UNDSC / United Nations Demining Stand-by Capacity
UNMAS / UN Mine Action Service
UXO / Unexploded Ordnance
VTFAMA / Voluntary Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Action
VTFAMC / Voluntary Trust Fund in Mine Clearance

Acronyms/Mine Ban Convention Review Conference

Compiled by Weihua Tang/UNON interpreter