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ABBREVIATIONS & ACRONYMS



ABACC: Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Nuclear Material Control and Accounting

Ad: Administration

AFJP: Pension Fund Manager

AFNE: Sttate-owned Naval Shipyards and Factories

AM: Material Area (in Air Force Material Command)

AMAS: South Atlantic Maritime Area

ANLIS: National Health Laboratories and Institutes Administration "Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán"

ARN: Nuclear Regulating Authority

BAM: Air Military Base

BR. A: Air Brigade

Br. Aerot: Airborne Brigade

Br. Bl: Armored Brigade

Br. Ec: School Brigade

Br. M: Mountain Brigade

Br. Mec: Mechanized Brigade

Br. Mte: Forest Brigade

BWC: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction

CAECOPAZ: Argentine PKO Joint Training Center

CAMAS: South Atlantic Shipping Area Coordinator.

CCEEOO: Strategic Operational Commands

CEILAP: Center for Laser Research and Uses

CEICOR: Center for Corrosion Research

CEIPEIN: Center for Pests and Pesticides Research

CEPAL: Economic Commission for Latin America

CICR: International Red Cross Committee

CITEFA: Armed Forces Scientific and Technical Research Institute

GRUMOVI: National Mobilization Working Team

GRUTEN: National Strategy Working Team

IAF: Financial Assistance Institute for Military Retirement and Pensions

ICC-SHAPE: International Coordination Center - Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe

Icia: Intelligence

ID: Research & Development (R& D)

IGM: Military Geographic Institute

IM: Marine Corps

INA: National Water and Environment Institute

INAP: National Civil Service Institution

INIDEP: National Fishing -R & D Institute

INTA: National Agribusiness Technology Institute

INTEMIN: National Mining Technology Institute

INTI: National Industrial Technology Institute

Instruc: Training

INVAP: Applied Research

J/JEF: Chief/Chief's Office

JEMCFFAA: Chief of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces

JEMGA: Chief of the Navy General Staff

JEMGE: Chief of the Army General Staff

JEMGFA: Chief of the Air Force General Staff

JID: Inter-American Defense Board

JSL: Senior Logistics Board

Km: Kilometer

Km2: Square Kilometers

LAASA: Lockheed Aircraft Argentina SA

MERCOSUR: South Common Market

Min: Ministry

MINUGUA: UN Mission in Guatemala

MINURSO: UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara

MIPONUH: UN Mission in Haiti

MISIÓN PERM ARG ONU: Argentine Permanent Mission in the UN

MOMEP: Military Observers Mission in Ecuador-Peru

MONUA: UN Observers Mission in Angola

MSU-SFOR: Multinational Specialized Unit-Stabilization Force in Bosnia

MTCR: Missile Technology Control Regime

NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization

OEA: Organization of American States(OAS)

OIEA: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

OMI: International Maritime Organization

OMP: Peacekeeping Operations

ONG: Non-Government Organizations

ONU: United Nations (UN)

PBI: Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

PECIFA: Armed Forces Civilian Personnel Union

PEN: National Executive Branch

PFA: Argentine Federal Police

PG: General Purpose

PNA: Argentine Coast Guard

PRINSO: Research Program in Solids

PYMES: Small and Medium-sized Companies

QBN: Chemical Biological Nuclear

RA: Air Region

RAE: Specific Allocation Resources

RENAR: National Weapons Register

RREE:
Foreign Affairs

SA: Corporation

SAR: Search and Rescue

SECODENA: National Defense Council Secretary

SEC.GEN.ONU: UN Secretary General's Office

SECYT: Science and Technology Secretariat

SEGEMAR: Argentine Geology Mining Service

SENC: National Catalog Service

SHIRBRIG: Multinational Fast Deployment Brigade

SIDE: Central Intelligence Agency

SIN: Naval Intelligence Service

SIJP: National Retirement and Pension System

SINAPA: National Civil Service Career System

SMO: System of Conscript

SMV: Volunteer Service

S3P: Planning, Programming and Budgeting System

TAM: Argentine Medium-sized Tank

TAMSE: Argentine Medium-sized Tank State-owned Company

TIAR: Inter American Reciprocal Assistance Treaty

TLATELOLCO: Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Tlatelolco Treaty)

TNP: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

UAI: Internal Audit Unit

UNFICYP: United Nations PKO Force in Cyprus

UNIKOM: UN Iraq-Kuwait Observers Mission

UNMIBH: UN Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina

UNMOP: UN Mission in Prevlaka-Croatia

UNPREDEP: UN Preventive Deployment Force

UNTSO: UN Truce Oversight Mission in the Middle East

VICEA: Air Space Surveillance and Control (Group)

ZEE: Exclusive Economic Zone



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