| CIS | Community of Independent States |
| CSCE | Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| EAPC | Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council |
| EBRD | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| EC | European Community (formerly Communities) |
| ENP | European Neighbourhood Policy |
| EU | European Union |
| FRG | Federal Republic of Germany |
| GDR | German Democratic Republic |
| GMF | German Marshall Fund of the United States |
| ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| MAP | Membership Action Plan |
| MTCR | Missile Technology Control Regime |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
| NPT | Non-Proliferation Treaty |
| NUC | NATO-Ukraine Commission |
| OSCE | Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| PAUCI | Polish-American-Ukrainian Cooperation Initiative |
| PfP | Partnership for Peace |
| START | Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty |
| TACIS | Technical Aid to the Community of Independent States |
| UN | United Nations |
| USAID | United States Agency for International Development |
| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| WMD | Weapons of Mass Destruction |
| WTO | World Trade Organisation |
