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  • abbreviation International Civil Aviation Organization

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  • initialism International Civil Aviation Organization

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  • noun the United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation

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  • ICAO's requirements are for a biometric machine-readable passport, with the face as the primary biometric, and ICAO is entirely silent on the subject of vast interlocking National Identity Register databases - if you want to implement one of these, that's up to you, it's not compulsory.

    B2fxxx 2004

  • The deal also potentially marks a success for ICAO, which is one of the U. N.'s largest bodies and has often struggled to unify its many members.

    U.N. Pact to Cut Airplane Emissions Daniel Michaels 2010

  • ICAO, which is expected to have the largest role in distributing lessons learned, has stressed the need for a "global collaborative process."

    Global Aviation Regulators Agree to Share Safety Data Andy Pasztor 2010

  • ICAO, which is expected to have the largest role in distributing lessons learned, has stressed the need for a "global collaborative process."

    Global Aviation Regulators Agree to Share Safety Data Andy Pasztor 2010

  • ICAO, which is expected to have the largest role in distributing lessons learned, has stressed the need for a "global collaborative process."

    Global Aviation Regulators Agree to Share Safety Data Andy Pasztor 2010

  • Again, go to the Web site of the embassy in Washington, or the other thing you can do is there's a United Nations organization called ICAO, the International Civil Aviation Organization, that works with countries.

    CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2007 2007

  • The ICAO is the U.N. agency that sets rules for international flights.

    azcentral.com | news Chris Hawley 2010

  • The ICAO is the U.N. agency that sets rules for international flights.

    RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds 2010

  • The following is the agreed upon data by commentators and investigating bodies such as ICAO which concluded that the deviation was not intentional but due to a lack of situational awareness, and such as the opposite understanding that the deviation and intrusion into Soviet air space was intentional for purposes of saving on fuel by "shortcutting", or intelligence gathering.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BertSchlossberg 2010

  • The following is the agreed upon data by commentators and investigating bodies such as ICAO which concluded that the deviation was not intentional but due to a lack of situational awareness, and such as the opposite understanding that the deviation and intrusion into Soviet air space was intentional for purposes of saving on fuel by "shortcutting", or intelligence gathering.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BertSchlossberg 2010

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