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Active members

Codes	Nation
AFG	Afghanistan
ALB	Albania
ALG	Algeria
AND	Andorra
ANG	Angola
ANT	Antigua and Barbuda
ARG	Argentina
ARM	Armenia
ARU	Aruba
ASA	American Samoa
AUS	Australia
AUT	Austria
AZE	Azerbaijan
BAH	Bahamas
BAN	Bangladesh
BAR	Barbados
BDI	Burundi
BEL	Belgium
BEN	Benin
BER	Bermuda
BHU	Bhutan
BIH	Bosnia and Herzegovina
BIZ	Belize
BLR	Belarus
BOL	Bolivia
BOT	Botswana
BRA	Brazil
BRN	Bahrain
BRU	Brunei
BUL	Bulgaria
BUR	Burkina Faso
CAF	Central African Republic
CAM	Cambodia
CAN	Canada
CAY	Cayman Islands
CGO	Congo
CHA	Chad
CHI	Chile
CHN	China
CIV	Ivory Coast
CMR	Cameroon
COD	Democratic Republic of the Congo
COK	Cook Islands
COL	Colombia
COM	Comoros

Other members

Codes	Nation
AIA	Anguilla
CUW	Curaçao
FRO	Faroe Islands
GIB	Gibraltar
MAC	Macau
MSR	Montserrat
NCL	New Caledonia
TAH	Tahiti
TCA	Turks and Caicos Islands

Non members

Codes	Nation
BES	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
ESH	Western Sahara (disputed by   Morocco)
GLP	Guadeloupe
GUF	French Guiana
MAF	Saint Martin
MNP	Northern Mariana Islands
MTQ	Martinique
NIU	Niue
REU	Réunion
SXM	Sint Maarten
ZAN	Zanzibar

Obsolete members

Codes	Nation
AHO	Netherlands Antilles
BIR	Burma
CEY	Ceylon
DAH	Dahomey
FRG	West Germany
GDR	East Germany
GUI	British Guiana
HEB	New Hebrides
IHO	Dutch East Indies
MAL	Malaya
NRH	Northern Rhodesia
RHO	Rhodesia
SAA	Saar
SCG	Serbia and Montenegro
SRH	Southern Rhodesia
TCH	Czechoslovakia
UAR	United Arab Republic
URS	Soviet Union
VIE	North Vietnam
VNM	South Vietnam
VOL	Upper Volta
WSM	Western Samoa
YAR	North Yemen
YMD	South Yemen
YUG	Yugoslavia
ZAI	Zaire