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Transcript Annex IV
Acronyms used in transcript
38th floor: reference to the Office of the UN Secretary-General
ACIRC: African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crisis
AF: Africa Bureau, US Department of State
APC: Armored Personnel Carrier
AU: African Union (formerly the OAU)
BBTG: Broad-Based Transitional Government
Chapter VI: term referring to “classic peacekeeping” as described in Chapter VI of the UN Charter
Chapter VII: term referring to “peace enforcement” as described in Chapter VII of the UN Charter
CDR: Coalition pour la Défense de la République, Coalition for the Defense of the Republic, one of the
political parties in Rwanda, this political party was originally left out of the Arusha Peace Accords
due to its extremist nature
CHK: Centre Hospitaliere de Kigali, Central Hospital in Kigali
CIVPOL: UN Civilian Police
CND: Parliamentary building in Kigali, Rwanda (Congrès National de Développement or Conseil
National pour le Développement)
DCM: refers to the US Deputy Chief of Mission at the embassy
DFS: Department of Field Support, United Nations, peacekeeping and political field mission support
DOD: US Department of Defense
DPA: UN Department of Political Affairs
DPKO: UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations
ETO: Ecole Technique Officielle, the Official Technical School, located in the Kigali suburb of Kicukiro
EU: European Union
FRODEBU: Front pour la Démocratie au Burundi, Front for Democracy in Burundi, political party in
Burundi (majority Hutu)
ICRC: International Committee of the Red Cross
ICTR: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, located in Arusha, Tanzania
IDP: Internally Displaced Person
KIBAT: refers to Belgian Battalion located in Kigali, part of UNAMIR
M23: the “March 23 Movement”, also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army, a rebel military
group based in the eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, led a rebellion in 2012
MFN: Most Favoured Nation (trade status)
MDR: Mouvement Démocratique Républicain, Democratic Republican Movement, one of the political
parties in Rwanda, split in late 1993, creating tensions stalling the installation of the new
government
MRND: Mouvement Révolutionnaire National pour le Dévelopement, National Republican Movement
for Democracy and Development, one of the political parties in Rwanda and the ruling party at the
time
MSF: Médecins sans Frontières
NAM: Non-aligned movement, refers to the group of states not formally aligned with or against any
major power bloc within the UN Security Council
NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NGO: Non-governmental organization
NMOG: Neutral Military Observer Group
NSC: National Security Council (US)
OAU: Organization of African Unity (today, it is the African Union or AU)
P3: referring to France, United Kingdom, and the United States
P5: referring to the permanent five members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia,
United Kingdom, United States)
PDD-25: Presidential Decision Directive 25
PKO: peacekeeping operation
PRD-13: Presidential Review Directive 13
R2P: Responsibility to Protect
RGF: Rwandan Government Forces
RPF: Rwandan Patriotic Front
RTLM: Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, a Rwandan radio station
SG: Secretary-General of the UN
SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General (UN), formal head of a peacekeeping mission
UK: United Kingdom
UN: United Nations
UNAMID: African Union/United Nations Hybrid operation in Darfur
UNAMIR: United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
UNAMIR II: refers to the second deployment of UNAMIR after the original mission was drawn down
after the genocide started
UNDP: United Nations Development Programme
UPRONA: Union pour le Progrès National, Union for National Progress, political party in Burundi
(majority Tutsi)
US: United States
USAID: United States Agency for International Development
USUN: United States Mission to the United Nations
