| ACD | Asian Cooperation Dialog |
| ADB | Asian Development Bank |
| APEC | Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| APR | Asia-Pacific Region |
| ASEAN | Association of South East Asian Nations |
| BSECO | Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization |
| BSTDB | Black See Trade and Development Bank |
| BTC | Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline |
| BTE | Baku-Tbilisi-Erzerum Gas Pipeline |
| CACO | Central Asian Cooperation Organization |
| CAEC | Central Asian Economic Community |
| CAREC | Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation |
| CE | Council of Europe |
| CEA | Central Eurasia |
| CEC | Central Election Commission |
| CEE | Central and East Europe |
| CES | Common Economic Space |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
| CICBMA | Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia |
| CIS | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| CMCE | Committee of Ministers of Council of Europe |
| CST | Collective Security Treaty |
| CSTO | Collective Security Treaty Organization |
| EAG | Eurasian Group |
| EBRD | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| ECO | Economic Cooperation Organization |
| ENP | European Neighborhood Policy |
| EU | European Union |
| EurAsEC | Eurasian Economic Community |
| FDI | Foreign Direct Investment |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GRFT | Group of Russian Forces in the Transcaucasus |
| GUAM | Georgia-Ukraine-Azerbaijan-Moldova |
| GUUAM | Georgia-Ukraine-Uzbekistan-Azerbaijan-Moldova |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| ICG | International Crisis Group |
| IDB | Islamic Development Bank |
| IFC | International Finance Corporation |
| IFI | International Financial Institutions |
| ILO | International Labor Organization |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| INOGATE | Interstate Oil and Gas Transport to Europe |
| IOM | International Organization for Migration |
| IPAP | Individual Partnership Action Plan |
| IRI | Islamic Republic of Iran |
| ISAF | International Security Assistance Force |
| KATB | Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku |
| LAS | League of Arab States |
| MERCOSUR | South American Common Market |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement |
| ODIHR OSCE | Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of OSCE |
| OIC | Organization of the Islamic Conference |
| OSCE | Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| OSCEMG | OSCE Minsk Group |
| PACE | Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe |
| PfP | Partnership for Peace |
| PRC | People’s Republic of China |
| RATS | Regional Antiterrorist Structure |
| RF | Russian Federation |
| SCO | Shanghai Cooperation Organization |
| SEA | South East Asia |
| SFDRF | Southern Federal District of the Russian Federation |
| SOCAR | State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic |
| SPECA | U.N. Special Program for the Economies of Central Asia |
| TRACECA | Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia |
| TRNC | Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus |
| U.N. | United Nations |
| U.S. | United States of America |
| U.S.S.R. | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| UAE | United Arab Emirates |
| UNCTAD | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
| UNDAF | United Nations Development Assistance Framework |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Program |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| UNFPA | United Nations Fund for Population Activities |
| UNHCR | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| UNICEF | United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund |
| UNIDO | United Nations Industrial Development Organization |
| UNTOP | United Nations Tajikistan Office of Peace-Building |
| USAID | United States Agency for International Development |
| WB | World Bank |
| WTO | World Trade Organization |
