onetary Union

Endangered Species : Convention on the International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Flora and
Fauna (CITES)

Entente : Council of the Entente

Environmental Modification : Convention on the Prohibition of
Military or Any Other Hostile Use of
Environmental Modification Techniques

ESA : European Space Agency

ESCAP : Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific

ESCWA : Economic and Social Commission for
Western Asia

est. : estimate

EU : European Union

Euratom : European Atomic Energy Community

Eutelsat : European Telecommunications Satellite
Organization

Ex-Im : Export-Import Bank of the United States

FAO : Food and Agriculture Organization

FAX : facsimile

f.o.b. : free on board

FLS : Front Line States

FRG : Federal Republic of Germany (West
Germany); used for information dated
before 3 October 1990 or CY91

FSU : former Soviet Union

FY : fiscal year

FYROM : The Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia

FZ : Franc Zone

G-2 : Group of 2

G-3 : Group of 3

G-5 : Group of 5

G-6 : Group of 6

G-7 : Group of 7

G-8 : Group of 8

G-9 : Group of 9

G-10 : Group of 10

G-11 : Group of 11

G-15 : Group of 15

G-19 : Group of 19

G-24 : Group of 24

G-30 : Group of 30

G-33