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Matter

Marine Life Conservation : Convention on Fishing and Conservation
of Living Resources of the High Seas

MARPOL : see Ship Pollution

Medarabtel : Middle East Telecommunications Project
of the International Telecommunications
Union

Mercosur : Southern Cone Common Market

MHz : megahertz

MINURSO : United Nations Mission for the
Referendum in Western Sahara

MONUC : United Nations Organization Mission in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo

NA : not available

NAM : Nonaligned Movement

NATO : North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NC : Nordic Council

NEA : Nuclear Energy Agency

NEGL : negligible

NIB : Nordic Investment Bank

NIC : newly industrializing country

NIE : newly industrializing economy

NM : nautical mile

NMT : Nordic Mobile Telephone

NSG : Nuclear Suppliers Group

Nuclear Test Ban : Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in
the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and
Under Water

NZ : New Zealand

OAPEC : Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting
Countries

OAS : Organization of American States

OAU : Organization of African Unity

ODA : official development assistance

OECD : Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development

OECS : Organization of Eastern Caribbean States

OIC : Organization of the Islamic Conference

OOF : other official flows

OPCW : Organization f