Glossary:African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)
The African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states, abbreviated as ACP, is an organisation created by the Georgetown Agreement in 1975. Except for Cuba, all ACP countries are signatories to a partnership agreement with the European Union (EU) known as the Cotonou Agreement.
The ACP group consists of 79 Member States: 48 countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, 16 from the Caribbean and 15 from the Pacific. They are (in order of country code, first row down, then second one, etc.):
Antigua and Barbuda | AG | Republic of Guinea | GN | Rwanda | RW |
Angola | AO | Equatorial Guinea | GQ | Solomon Islands | SB |
Barbados | BB | Guinea-Bissau | GW | Seychelles | SC |
Burkina Faso | BF | Guyana | GY | Sudan | SD |
Burundi | BI | Haiti | HT | Sierra Leone | SL |
Benin | BJ | Jamaica | JM | Senegal | SN |
Bahamas | BS | Kenya | KE | Somalia | SO |
Botswana | BW | Kiribati | KI | Suriname | SR |
Belize | BZ | St Kitts and Nevis | KN | São Tomé and Príncipe | ST |
Central African Republic | CF | St. Lucia | LC | Swaziland | SZ |
Congo | CG | Liberia | LR | Chad | TD |
Côte d’Ivoire | CI | Lesotho | LS | Togo | TG |
Cook Islands | CK | Comoros | KM | Timor Leste/East Timor | TL |
Cameroon | CM | Madagascar | MG | Tonga | TO |
Cuba | CU | Marshall Islands | MH | Trinidad and Tobago | TT |
Cape Verde | CV | Mali | ML | Tuvalu | TV |
Djibouti | DJ | Mauritania | MR | Tanzania | TZ |
Dominica | DM | Mauritius | MU | Uganda | UG |
Dominican Republic | DO | Malawi | MW | St Vincent and the Grenadines | VC |
Eritrea | ER | Mozambique | MZ | Vanuatu | VU |
Ethiopia | ET | Namibia | NA | Samoa | WS |
Fiji | FJ | Niger | NE | South Africa | ZA |
Federated States of Micronesia | FM | Nigeria | NG | Zambia | ZM |
Gabon | GA | Nauru | NR | Zimbabwe | ZW |
Grenada | GD | Niue | NU | ||
Ghana | GH | Palau | PW | ||
Gambia | GM | Papua New Guinea | PG |