Pacific News from Manoa NEWSLEITER OF THE CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I

SPECIAL EDITION: PACIFIC ACRONYMS This issue of Pacific News from Manoa is an update of the acronym newsletter which was published in 1985, edited by Judith Hamnett. In this listing, we have included acronyms that are in use in the Pacific even though some of them may not be recognized outside specific areas.

The acronyms generally represent organizations but there are several that refer to events and political situations, such as ANZUS and SPNFZT, geographic designations such as FSM and PNG, and concepts such as ECU and SIS. Each entry is in the following general format for the information that was available and applicable: ACRONYM; type of organization (see below); location; description.

This edition was a collaborative effort of the CPIS staff and Michael Hamnett of the CDS, SSRI, UHM. We hope the updated list will be helpful as a handy reference about organizations and terms used in the Pacific. As always, please write to the editor regarding any additions or corrections.

Some of the organizations have been identified as one of the following types: IO: International Organization MCO: Metropolitan Country Organization NGO: Non-Government Organization PIO: Pacific Island Organization RO: Regional Organization * indicates that the acronym is no longer in use ** A recent article in Pacific Magazine (July August, 1992, page 60) mentions that the COM is expected to dissolve next year.

AcP SeeACP/EC

ACP/EC Africa, Caribbean, and the Pacific; IO; former colonies of EEC countries tied to EEC through Lome Conventions

ACT Association for Communication of Transcultural Study; MCO, Japan

* ADAB · Australian Development Assistance Bureau; superseded by AIDAB

ADAP Agriculture Development in the American Pacific; UH; consortium of land grant college programs in the AFPI

ADB Asian Development Bank; IO; regional office in Port Vila, main office in Manila

ADFAT Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; MCO

AFPI American Fl~g Pacific Islands; refers to GU, CNMir .AS;- and Bawai'i

AIDAB Australl~ Internati<?nal Development Assistance Burea~ MCO; based in Canberra and at diplomatic missions; Australia's development assistanye agency, arm of ADFAT

ANU Australian National University; MCO;'Canberra ANZ Australia and New Zealand ANZAC Australia and New Zealand Army Corps ANZUS Australia, New Zealand, and United States

AODRO

AOSIS

APEC APIC

ARC ARDU

security pact Australian Overseas Disaster Relief Organization; NGO, Australia; Sydney consortium of NGOs supported by AIDAB Association of Small Island States; Coalition of Pacific, Caribbean, and Indian Ocean states concerned with global environmental issues Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Group Association for Promotion of International Cooperation; MCO, Japan American Red Cross; NGO, US Atoll Research and Development Unit; Tarawa, Kiribati; USP research unit, formerly ARU

ARTS Artists of Rota, Tinian, and Saipan *ARU Atoll Research Unit, now ARDU ASAO American Society for Anthropology in Oceania ASCACH American Samoa Council on the Arts, Culture,

and Humanities ASCC American Samoa Community College

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ASCEND American Samoa Community Exchange for National Development

ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations; RO ASG American Samoa Government ASPA Association of South Pacific Airlines ASPBAE Asian-South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education;

RO, NGO; USP a member AVA Australian Volunteers Abroad AUSTRADE Australian Trade missionsabroad; MCO

BATFOG Bush Administration Task Force (on the future

political status) On Guam BCL Bougainville Copper Limited; Panguna, PNG BEAM Bilingual Education Across Micronesia; UOG BEST Business Enterprise Support Team; PIO;

Madang, PNG BRA Bougainville Revolutionary Army I Bougainville

Republican Army BYU-H Brigham Young University Hawai'i; La'ie,

Hawai' i; private university

CALS CAS CASD CBPA

CCAC

Commercial Agriculture Development; project of

US AID College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; UOG College of Arts and Sciences; UOG Centre for Applied Studies in Development; USP College of Business and Public Administration; UOG Commonwealth Council on Arts and Culture; CNMI

CCM Community College of Micronesia; based in Pohnpei; part of COM**

*CCOP-SOPAC Committee for Coordination of Joint

CCSLR CDC

Prospecting for Mineral Resources in Asian Off­Shore Areas South Pacific; UN; now SOPAC Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Commonwealth Development Corporation; MCO, UK; joint ventures development corporation supported by UK

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CDC Center for Disease Control; MCO, US; health agency involved in Micronesia

CDS Center for Development Studies; SSRI, UH; does applied policy research

CELT Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching; USP

CETC Community Education Training Centre; SPC program; Suva

CFTC Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation; IO; supports technical services and fellowships in commonwealth countries

CHOGRM Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting; RO; secretariat in London

CIDA Canadian International Development Agency; MCO; regional office served from Wellington High Commission, aid agency

CIMA Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology; US research effort conducted after WWII

CINCPAC Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet; MCO, US; Honolulu; US Navy command center

CIRAD Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement; MCO, France

CMI College of the Marshall Islands; part of COM** *CNEXO Centre National pour 1 'Exploitation des Oceans;

MCO, France; National Center for Oceanic Research; superseded by IFREMER

CNMI Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands CNRS Centre National de Recherche Scientifique;

MCO, France CODE Canadian Organisation for Development through

Education; MCO, NGO; supports education in developing countries; regional center at USP Centre in Kiribati

COE College of Education; UOG COM Program on Communications and Journalism;

EWC; formerly part of ICC COM College of Micronesia; PIO; main campus in

Pohnpei (CCM); satellite campuses in Belau (MOC), and RMI (CMI) **

COMSEC Commonwealth Secretariat; IO; HQ in London; provides technical assistance to commonwealth countries

CPAC Consortium on Pacific Arts and Culture; MCO, US; HQ, Honolulu, serves American-affiliated territories and countries

CPIS Center for Pacific Islands Studies; UHM, SHAPS; supersedes PIP and PISP

CRDG Curriculum Research and Development Group; UH; conducts curriculum research for schools in Hawai' i and PI

CRES Centre for Renewable Energy Studies; ANU

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CRGA Committee of Representatives of Governments and Administrations for SPC

CRIA Committee on Regional Institutional Arrangements; endorsed by SPF in 1988

CRM Coastal Resource Management Program; CNMI CSPS Centre for South Pacific Studies; UNSW,

Kensington, Australia CTAPS Consortium for Teaching Asia and the Pacific in

the Schools; EWC CTEC Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission;

MCO, Australia CTSA Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture;

Makapu' u Point, 0' ahu; oceanic institute CUC Commonwealth Utility Corporation; CNMI CUL Program on Cultural Studies; EWC; formerly

part ofiCC CUSO Canadian University Service Overseas; MCO;

volunteer-sending agency CZM Coastal Zone Management

D A WR Division of Aquatic Wildlife Resources; Guam

DBED Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism; Hawai' i state department

DBWS Development Bank of Western Samoa DCP Defence Cooperation Program; MCO, Australia;

assists in supplying patrol boats to PI countries to monitor EEZ

DOC Department of Commerce; MCO, US DOD Department of Defense; MCO, US DOl Department of the Interior; MCO, US DOM-TOM Departments Outre-Mer et Territoires Outre-

Mer; MCO, France DPO Office of Economic Development and Planning

in American Samoa DRI Direct Relief International DSC Development Studies Centre; ANU, RSPacS

* EAPI Environment and Policy Institute; EWC;

superseded by ENV EC European Community; IO; regional

representative in Suva; largely concerned with Lome convention involving EEC and ACP countries.

ECU European Currency Unit EDA US Economic Development Administration; PI

regional office, Honolulu; DOC EDB European Development Bank; IO; based in

Belgium; provides capital for development at commercial rates

EDI Economic Development Institute; WB HQ; Washington, DC

EEC European Economic Community EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone

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EIAIEIS Environmental Impact Assessment/Study EMBL Enewetak Marine Biological Laboratory; RMI ENV Program on Environment; EWC; formerly part

ofEAPI EPOC ESCAP Pacific Operations Center; UN; Port

Vila, Vanuatu ERU Education Research Unit; UPNG ESCAP Economic and Social Commission for Asia and

the Pacific; UN; as of 1984, PI office in Port Vila, Vanuatu

EWC East-West Center; MCO, US; Honolulu; research and educational institution with an international board of governors

EWCA East-West Center Association; EWC EWCPA East-West Center Participants Association; EWC EXIMBANK provides export financing for US

manufacturers and industries

F AO Food and Agricultural Organization; UN;

regional office, Apia; fisheries coordinator, Suva FAS Freely Associated States; FSM and RMI FDB Fiji Development Bank FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency; MCO,

US; region IX office, San Francisco FESTPAC Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture, held every

4 years, different locations, 1992 in the Cook Islands, SPC-supported

FFA Forum Fisheries Agency; RO; based in Honiara; reports to SPF, assists governments with preparations for fisheries negotiations and advises governments on fisheries matters

FIC Forum Island Countires, see SPF FINTEL Fiji International Telecommunications FIT Fiji Institute of Technology; PIO FLNKS Front de Liberation Nationale Kanak et

Socialiste; Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front; New Caledonia; pro-independence group

FINAPECO Fiji National Petroleum Company FPTL Fiji Post and Telecommunications Ltd;

FSED FSM

FSM FSP

FTm FWA

GATT GCC GEDA GEPA

government-controlled company Forum Secretariat Energy Division; SPF Federated States of Micronesia; includes Yap, Chunk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae Fiji School of Medicine; RO Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific; NGO, US; HQ in California Fiji Trade and Investment Board Fiji Writer's Association; Suva

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Guam Community College Guam Economic Development Authority Guam Environmental Protection Agency

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GTZ German Overseas Development Assistance

HIMB Hawai' i Institute of Marine Biology; UH;

research includes fisheries and aquaculture HITAHR Hawai' i Institute of Tropical Agriculture and

Human Resources; UH; programs to promote

HNEI

HQ HURL

lAos

agriculture in Hawai' i and rest of PI Hawai'i Natural Energy Institute; UH; works with federal, state, county, private industry, etc. in renewable energy activities Headquarters Hawai' i Undersea Research Laboratory; UH

Le lunivesite Aoao o Samoa (NUS); Western

Samoa lAS Institute of Applied Sciences; USP; supersedes

INR, May 1992 *lASER Institute of Applied Social and Economic

Research; PIO; Port Moresby, PNG; superseded byNRl

ffiRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; 10; HQ, Washington, DC; known as World Bank

ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization *ICC Institute on Culture and Communications; EWC;

superseded by CUL and COM ICCM/ICCP Insect/Invertebrate Control Committee of

Micronesia/Pacific ICJ ICOD

IDA

IDC

IDRC

International Court of Justice; UN International Council for Ocean Development; MCO, Canada; Ottawa International Development Association; WB; makes concessionary loans to the poorest countries International Development Corporation; joint venture support for developing countries International Development Research Centre; MCO, Canada; supports development of third world research institutions

*IEDP Institute for Economic Development and Policy;

IFC EWC; superseded by PED International Finance Corporation; WB; does project analysis and takes equity in private sector projects in developing countries

IFREMER Institut Fran~ais de Recherche Et d'etudes de

lliAP

IGO liE

ILO

laMer; Paris; supersedes CNEXO International Human Assistance Program; NGO, US; NYC, some regional offices Intergovernmental Organizations Institute for International Education; NGO, US; NYC; administers part of Fulbright program International Labor Organization; UN; HQ in Geneva, regional office in Suva

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IMF

IMR INA

*INR

*IPNGS

*IRP

IRD IPS IPS IPS

IRETA

ISAS

ISEP ITA ITU IVP IWGIA

July-August 1992

International Monetary Fund; WB; HQ in Washington, DC Institute of Marine Resources; USP; Suva Institute for National Affairs; NGO, PIO; Port Moresby; private sector research institute Institute of Natural Resources; USP; Suva; superseded by lAS Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies; PIO; Port Moresby; now Cultural Studies Division of NRI International Relations Program; EWC; superseded by PIR Institute for Rural Development; USP; Tonga Institute of Pacific Studies; USP; Suva Institute for Polynesian Studies; BYU-H Institute for Policy Studies; Victoria University, Wellington, NZ Institute for Research, Education, and Training in Agriculture; USP School of Agriculture, Western Samoa Institute of Social and Administrative Studies; USP, SSED; Suva International Student Exchange Program International Trade Administration; US, DOC International Telecommunications Union; Suva International Visitor Program; EWC International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs; 10; Copenhagen, Denmark

J A CADS Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal

JCC

JIAM ncA JIMAR

System Joint Commercial Commission; proposed regional body to promote private sector development between PI countries and the US Japan International Association for Mangroves Japan International Cooperation Agency; MCO Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research; joint UH/NOAA program at UH

JOIDES Joint Oceanographic Institutions Deep Earth

JPH JPS

JSOC

Sampling; UH Journal of Pacific History; published at ANU Journal of the Polynesian Society; Wellington, NZ; published by the Polynesian Society Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes; published at the Musee de 1 'homme, Paris

JSPECA Japan and South Pacific Economic Cooperation Association

JWC Joint Working Committee; PNG and Malaysia; implements defense cooperation arrangements

KAnA Kwajalein Atoll Development Authority

Le lAOS see lAOS

LMS London Missionary Society

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MARC Micronesia Area Research Center; UOG

MATS Melanesian Association of Theological Schools MEHP Micronesian Endowment for Historic

MI MIRD MKAM

MMDC

MOC

MOP MPRL MRS

MS

MSG

NmA

NFIP

NEMS NIME

NLTB NLTB NMC NOAA

NMFS

NRI

Preservation Micronesia Institute; NGO; Chuuk Motupore Island Research Department; UPNG Mount Kare Alluvial Mining; PNG; gold-mining company in Highlands Micronesia Mariculture Demonstration Center; Belau Micronesian Occupational Center; Belau; part of COM system** Marine Options Program; UH Mid Pacific Research Laboratory Micronesian Resources Study; program of US National Park Service Micronesian Seminar; NGO; Kolonia, Pohnpei, formerly in Chuuk Melanesian Spearhead Group; RO; members are PNG, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and FLNKS

National Investment Development Authority;

PIO, PNG Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific; RO; PCRC is secretariat National Environment Management Strategies National Institute of Multimedia Education; MCO, Japan Native Land Trust Board; PNG Native Lands Trust Board; Fiji Northern Marianas College; Saipan National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; MCO, US; DOC National Marine Fisheries Service; MCO, US, DOC National Research Institute; PIO; Boroko, PNG

NUS National University of Samoa; PIO, Western Samoa; also called lAOS

0 ASA Office of American Samoa Affairs

OBEMLA Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Affairs; MCO, US

OCRM Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management; MCO, US; NOAA

ODA Overseas Development Agency; MCO, UK; London; UK development assistance agency

OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development; HQ, Paris; superseded OEEC in 1961

*OEEC Organisation for European Economic Cooperation; established 1948 to implement Marshall Plan; superseded by OECD

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OFDA Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance; MCO, US; Washington

OHA Office of Hawaiian Affairs OTML Ok Tedi Mining Limited; PNG; gold and copper

mining company OIR Office of International Relations; Office of

Governor of Hawai' i OPIC Overseas Private Investment Corporation;

promotes US investment abroad and provides guarantees

OPM Organisasi Papua Merdeka; independence movement in Irian Jaya, seeking freedom from Indonesia

ORSTOM Institut Fran~ais de Recherche Scientifique pour le Developpement en Cooperation; MCO, France;Noumea, Pape' ete; formerly Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, changed name, maintained acronym

OSP Office of State Planning; Hawai' i; state department.

OTEC Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion OTIA Office of Territorial and International Affairs;

MCO, US; DOl office with responsibilities for programs in US territories and entities in Micronesia

P AA Pacific Aquaculture Association

P AA Pacific Arts Association; Honolulu PAAC Pacific and Asian Affairs Council PAC Pacific Adventist College; Papua New Guinea PACNEWS Pacific News; Suva; compiled by PIBA P ALI Pacific Asian Language Institute; formerly at UH

Linguistics department, now at SSRl P AMBU Pacific Manuscripts Bureau; ANU;

newsletter of PMB P AMI Pacific Asian Management Institute; UH College

of Business Administration PAP Pacific Aquaculture Program; UH; program of

Sea Grant Extension Service PATS Pohnpei Agriculture and Trade School PBC Pacific Business Center; UH College of Business

Administration PBDC Pacific Basin Development Council; RO;

Honolulu; serves as secretariat to council of governors from US Pacific territories and Hawai'i

PCC Pacific Conference of Churches; NGO, RO; secretariat in Suva

PCC Polynesian Cultural Center; La' ie, Hawai' i PCRC Pacific Concerns Resource Centre; RO; offices in

Auckland and Sydney; secretariat for NFIP PDN Pacific Daily News, Guam

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PEACESAT Pan-Pacific Education and Communication

PECC PED

*PFDF PFL

PHA PI *PI PIA

PIA

PIACC

Experiment by Satellite; UH Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference Program on Economic Development; EWC; supersedes IEDP Pacific Fisheries Development Foundation Pacific Forum Line; RO; HQ, Wellington, NZ; regional shipping line owned by SPF country governments Pacific History Association Pacific Islands Population Institute; EWC; superseded by POP Office of Pacific Island Affairs; MCO, US; Department of State Pacific Islands Association; NGO, US; NY; forum for discussion of issues affecting PI countries Pacific Islands Association of Chambers of Commerce

PIAN GO Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental

PffiA PIC PIC

Organizations; secretariat in Honiara Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association Pacific Information Centre; USP; Suva Pacific Islanders in Communication; NGO, US; Honolulu

PIC Pacific Islands Conference; RO; PIDP, EWC; Honolulu; heads of government body with a standing committee of 8 leaders; PIDP is secretariat and research arm

PICHTR Pacific International Center for High Tech Research; previously a UH program, now independent

PIDP Pacific Islands Development Program; EWC; serves as research arm and secretariat for PIC, operates as an RO

PILS Pacific Information and Library Services newsletter published by UH Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences

PIM Pacific Islands Monthly; Suva; news magazine PIMRIS Pacific Islands Marine Resources Information

System; based at USP Library PIMS Pacific Islands Monograph Series; published by

UH Press for CPIS PIN Pacific Island Network of NOAA agencies PINA Pacific Islands News Association PINDA Pacific Islands Nutrition and Dietetic

Association; NGO, RO; based at USP Extension Services

*PIP Pacific Islands Studies Program; superseded by CPIS

*PIP A Pacific Islands Producers Association; supersedes PIPS, incorporated into SPEC, 1974

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*PIPS Pacific Islands Producers' Secretariat; region's first indigenous intergovernmental organization, forerunner of SPF, superseded by PIP A

PIPSA Pacific Islands Political Studies Association; convener at Monash University, Australia

PIR Program on International Relations; EWC; supersedes IPR

*PISP Pacific Islands Studies Program; superseded by CPIS

PLU Pacific Language Unit; USP; based in Vanuatu PLU Pacific Law Unit; USP; Vila PMB Pacific Manuscipts Bureau; RSPacS; ANU PNG Papua New Guinea PNGDF Papua New Guinea Defence Force; national

military POP Program on Population; EWC; supersedes PI PRAP Pacific Regional Agricultural Programme;

project of EC PRE Bureau for Private Enterprise; Washington PREL Pacific Regional Education Laboratory; MCO-

US; RO; Honolulu PRAS Pacific Regional Advisory Service; SPF program PRS Pacific Regional Seminary; Suva PSA Pacific Science Association; secretariat in

Honolulu *PSB Pacific Science Board; program of the US

National Academy of Sciences; active in 1940s and 1950s

*PSIC Pacific Science Information Center; Honolulu; Bishop Museum; collection integrated into Bishop Museum Collection

PTC Pacific Telecommunications Council; NGO; Honolulu; to promote understanding and beneficial use of telecommunications in the Pacific region.

PTC Pacific Theological College; Suva

Q ANT AS Queensland and Northern Territory Air

Services; Australian national airline

RAI Royal Anthropological Institute; MCO, UK

RDC Rural Development Centre; USP program; Tonga RDO/SP Research Development Office for the South

Pacific; Suva; USAlD regional program REM Program on Resources: Energy and Minerals;

EWC; supersedes Resources Program RIO Foundation for the Reorganization of the

International Order; NGO; European-operated foundation with Pacific development interest

RMI Republic of the Marshall Islands ROCEMP Regional Ocean, Coastal Zone, and Exclusive

Economic Zone Management Program with PBDC

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RPCR

RPU RSPacS

ScF

SEAPA

SHAPS

SIS

SIC HE SIDT

SLN

SMSP

SNR SOE

Rally for Caledonia in the Republic; New Caledonia; anti-independence party Regional Petroleum Unit; at SPF Secretariat Research School of Pacific Studies; ANU

Save the Children Fund; NGO, US; HQ, Westport, CT, some country offices Southeast Asian and Pacific Area; tertiary education conference originally involved SEA commonwealth countries, extended to include UPNG, USP and Australia and NZ institutions School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies;

UHM Small Island States; formed 1992, includes Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Cook Islands, and Tuvalu Solomon Islands College of Higher Education Solomon Islands Development Trust; NGO; involved in participatory rural development Societe le Nickel; New Caledonia; government nickel company South Pacific Mining Company; New Caledonia; nickel-mining company owned by Northern Province Government, FLNKS-controlled School of Natural Resources; USP; Suva School of Education; USP; Suva

SOH School of Humanities; USP; Suva SOFA Status of Forces Agreement; PNG and Indonesia;

provides a legal basis for the presence of armed forces in either country in the territory of the other, signed January 1992

SOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission; RO; Suva; focuses on seabed mineral survey and surveys of other non-living ocean resources; supersedes CCOP/SOPAC

SPACHEE South Pacific Action Committee for Human Ecology and the Environment; RO; Suva

SPARTECA South Pacific Area Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement; provides import concessions for PI countries to ANZ

SPAS School of Pure and Applied Sciences; USP; Suva SPATS South Pacific Association of Theological

Schools; RO SPC South Pacific Commission; RO; HQ, Noumea;

Secretariat of South Pacific Conference; established 1947, 27 members are metropolitan countries involved in the PI and the island governments

SPCADP South Pacific Civil Aviation Development Programme

SPEC South Pacific Bureau for Economic Cooperation; RO; HQ, Suva; secretariat of SPF

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SPF South Pacific Forum; RO; HQ, Suva; 15 members are heads of government of independent and self-governing countries of the South Pacific

SPG South Pacific Games; held every four years, 1995 in Tahiti

SPIA South Pacific Island Airways SPMDP South Pacific Maritime Development Programme SPNFZT South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty;

presented at SPF in 1985, Treaty of Rarotonga SPOCC South Pacific Organizations Coordinating

Committee; made up of heads of ROs SPOCTU South Pacific and Oceanic Council of Trade

SPPF

SPRAD

SPRDO SPREP

SPTC SPTC

SPTDP

SPTO SRO

SSD

SSED

SSRI

STAS

SUPAR

TcsP

TDP

*TTPI

UFP

UH UHH UHM UHP UK

Unions; RO South Pacific Peoples Foundation; NGO; HQ in Victoria, BC, Canada South Pacific Regional Agricultural Development Program; UH, HIT AHR; UH/Comell USAlD program South Pacific Regional Development Office South Pacific Regional Environmental Program; RO; SPC, Noumea South Pacific Trade Commission South Pacific Trade Centre; Sydney; major trade center for Pacific products in Sydney South Pacific Telecommunications Development Programme; SPEC; Suva South Pacific Trade Office; Sydney Single Regional Organization; issue concerning Pacific regionalism South Sea Digest; newsletter published by Pacific Publications, Sydney School of Social and Economic Development; USP; Suva Social Science Research Institute; UH; conducts research and publishing in social sciences and linguistics Short-term Advisory Services; provided by SPF secretariat Soviet Union in the Pacific and Asian Region; UH, SHAPS

Tourism Council for the South Pacific; RO; Suva

Trade and Development Program; promotes US investment for development Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; former name for Micronesia administered by US Universite Fran~aise du Pacifique; Noumea and Pape'ete University of Hawai' i University of Hawai' i at Hilo University of Hawai' i at Manoa University of Hawai' i Press United Kingdom

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UN United Nations; 10 UNCED UN Conference on Environment and

Development (Rio Conference) UNCEN Universitas Cenderawasih; Irian Jaya UNCHS UN Centre for Human Settlements; Nairobi; also

called UNHABITAT UNCTAD UN Council on Trade and Development; HQ in

Geneva; serves General Assembly UNCTC UN Center on Transnational Corporations UNDAT UN Development Advisory Team; Port Vila,

EPOC office; provides short term consultants UNDP UN Development Program; regional

representatives in Apia, Suva; resident representative in Port Moresby; most heavily funded of UN family, has both regional and country programs

UNDRO UN Disaster Relief Office; responsible for coordination of UN disaster assistance. administered in the PI through UNDP reps

UNEP UN Environment Program UNESCO UN Educational and Social Council; UN;

regional office in Apia UNFP A UN Fund for Population Activities; UN; regional

office, Suva UNHABITAT See UNCHS UNHCR UN High Commissioner on Refugees UNICEF UN International Children's Emergency Fund;

since 1950, UN Children's Fund UNIDO UN Industrial Development Organization;

HQin Suva UNITECH University of Technology; PIO, PNG; Lae UNPEDP UN Pacific Energy Development Program;

regional office, Suva UNSW University of New South Wales; Kensington,

Australia

University ofHawai'i at Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies 1890 East-West Road, Moore Hall 215 Honolulu, Hawai' i 96822 USA

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us US AID

USEPA USIA USP

US PHS USPS A

VAT VOA

1992

University of Guam; Mangilao University of Papua New Guinea; PIO; Port Moresby United States US Agency for International Development; MCO, US; regional office, Suva; HQ in Washington US Environmental Protection Agency; MCO US Information Agency; MCO University of the South Pacific; RO; main

campus in Suva, Fiji; serves 12 participating countries: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, RMI, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Western Samoa US Public Health Service; MCO, US USP Student Association; USP; Suva

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Voice of America; HQ in Washington; national radio program

W AIS Wide Area Information Server; PMB catalogues

available through this database service WB World Bank; 10; also IBRD WERI Water, Energy Research Institute; UOG WESTPAC Western Pacific Fisheries Development

Council; MCO; HQ, Honolulu; public sector/ private sector fisheries management council

WFP World Food Program; UN; provides relief food; armofFAO

WHO World Health Organization; 10; regional office, Manila

WMO World Meteorological Organization; 10 WUTMI Women United Together Marshall Islands; PIO