Acronyms and Initialisms
Note: The Portuguese or Tetum is given first, followed by the English translation
ADB
Asian Development Bank
AECCOP
Associação de Empresários de Construção Civil e Obras Públicas;
Association of Entrepreneurs for Construction and Public Works
AMP
Aliança da Maioria Parlamentar; Alliance of the Parliamentary
Majority
ASEAN
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
CAC
Comissão Anti-Corrupção; Anti-Corruption Commission
CAVR
Comissão de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliação de Timor
Leste; Timor-Leste Commission for Reception, Truth and
Reconciliation
CAAC
Comissão para os Assuntos dos Antigos Combatentes;
Commission for the Issues of Former Combatants
CAVF
Comissão para os Assuntos dos Veteranos dos FALINTIL;
Commission for the Issues of FALINTIL Veterans
CAQR
Comissão para os Assuntos dos Quadros da Resistencia;
Commission for the Issues of Cadres of the Resistance
CNRT (1)
Conselho Nacional da Resistência Timorense; National Council
of Timorese Resistance (in existence from 1998–2001)
CNRT (2)
Congresso Nacional para a Reconstrução de Timor-Leste;
National Congress for the Reconstruction of Timor-Leste
(a political party formed in 2007)
CHART
Clearing House for Archival Records on Timor
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A New Era? Timor-Leste After the UN
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CPD-RDTL
Conselho Popular pela Defesa da República Democrática de
Timor-Leste; Popular Council for the Defence of the Democratic
Republic of Timor-Leste
CPLP
Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa; Community
of Portuguese Language Countries
FALINTIL
Forças Armadas da Libertação Nacional de Timor-Leste;
Armed Forces for the National Liberation of East Timor
FRETILIN
Frente Revolucionária de Timor-Leste Independente;
Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor
G20
Group of Twenty (international forum for the governments
and central bank governors of 19 major economies plus the
European Union)
g7+
Association of 20 countries that are or have been affected
by conflict and are now in transition to the next stage of
development
GDP
gross domestic product
GFC
Global Financial Crisis
ICG
International Crisis Group
IDPs
internally displaced persons
INTERFET
International Force for East Timor
JICA
Japan International Cooperation Agency
MAE
Ministério da Administração Estatal; Ministry of State
Administration
MDGs
Millennium Development Goals
MP
Member of Parliament
MSS
Ministério da Solidariedade Social; Ministry of Social Solidarity
NGO
Non-government Organisation
NLC
National Liberation Combatant
OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OPEC
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
PDID
Planeamento de Dezenvolvimentu Integradu Distritál;
Integrated District Development Planning
PDL
Programa Dezenvolvimentu Lokal; Local Development Program
Acronyms and Initialisms
PNDS
Programa Nasional Dezenvolvimentu Suku; National Village
Development Program
PNTL
Polícia Nacional de Timor-Leste; National Police of Timor-Leste
PSD
Partido Social Democrata; Social Democratic Party
RDTL
República Democrática de Timor-Leste; Democratic Republic
of Timor-Leste
SDP
Strategic Development Plan
UDT
União Democrática Timorense; Timorese Democratic Union
UN
United Nations
UNDP
United Nations Development Programme
UNHCR
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNMIT
United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste
UNTAET
United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor
WHO
World Health Organization
ZEESM
Zona Espesial Ekonomia Sosial Merkadu; Special Economic Zone
for Social Market Economy
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This text is taken from A New Era? Timor-Leste after the UN,
edited by Sue Ingram, Lia Kent and Andrew McWilliam,
published 2015 by ANU Press, The Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia.