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L'Association des Nations de l'Asie du Sud-Est . African Regional Intellectual Property Organization . AFRICAN UNION .  Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas . The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich . Banque Centrale Européenne - AN BANC CEANNAIS EORPACH AN tEUROCHÓRAS . BASLE CONVENTION . Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal . Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade and on Persistent Organic Pollutants . Benelux . Benelux Organisation for Intellectual Property . Office for Intellectual Property . BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL . Black Sea Economic Cooperation . BLACK SEA TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BANK

Central Bank of West African States . Commission de Contrôle des Fichiers de l’O.I.P.C.-Interpol . Commission européenne . Common Market For Eastern And Southern Africa . Community Fisheries Control Agency . Community Plant Variety Office . Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage  . Convention-Cadre des Nations Unies sur les Changements Climatiques . Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (2) . Convention de Bâle sur le
contrôle des mouvements transfrontières de déchets dangereux et de leur élimination . Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animalse . Cooperation Council for the Arabb States of the Gulf . Cour Permanente d'Arbitrage  . CVRIA

EUCLID University . European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . European Border and Coast Guard Agency . EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK . European Central Bank EUROSYSTEM . European Centre for disease prevention and control . EUROPEAN COURT OF AUDITORS . European Fisheries Control Agency . European Food Safety Authority . European Forest Institute . European GNSS Agency . European Investment Fund . European Maritime Safety Agency . European Medicines Agency . European Medicines Agency (2) . European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction . European Parliament . EUROPEAN PUBLIC PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE . European Training Foundation ETF . European Union Agency for Railways

FRONTEX

GALILEO . Global Water Partnership . Global Water Partnership Organization . GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITY TRUST . Global Green Growth Institute

Institut de l'Energie et de l'Environnement de la Francophonie . International Centre for Settlement of Investments Disputes . International Court of Justice . ITER International Fusion Energy Organization . International Cospas Sarsat Programme . INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE UNIFICATION OF PRIVATE LAW . INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE . INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION . INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR BAMBOO AND RATTAN . The International Organisation of La Francophonie . International Organization of Legal Metrology . International Transport Forum . International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants . IRENA . Islamic Development Bank

NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT

THE OPEC FUND FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT . Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques - Organisation for Economic and Co-operation and development . Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques (2) . Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques (3) . Organisation de Coopération Islamique - Organization of Islamic Cooperation . Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation BSEC . Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation BSEC (2) . ORGANISATION MONDIALE DES DOUANES . Organisation Mondiale de la Santé Animale . Organisation pour l'interdiction des armes chimiques

Pan African University . Permanent Court of Arbitration . Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization . Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products

Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

STOCKHOLM CONVENTION ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS 

The International Organisation of La Francophonie . The Global Compact . The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer . Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union

ÜBEREINKOMMEN ZUM SCHUTZ DER ALPEN . UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION IN COUNTRIES EXPERIENCING SERIOUS DROUGHT AND/OR DESERTIFICATION, PARTICULARLY IN AFRICA . United Nations Development Program . United Nations Population Fund . United Nations University . UNION POSTALE UNIVERSELLE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION . UNWTO

WORLD CUSTOMS ORGANIZATION . WHO FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON TOBACCO CONTROL . World Heritage . World Heritage (2)