In international diplomacy, JACKSNNZ (pronounced “Jacksons”) is the colloquial name of an informal grouping of the world's affluent non-EU countries, excluding the United States.
The term originated in the proceedings to the Sixth Review Conference of the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention held in Geneva in 2006.
In the previous review conference talks broke down over American refusals to allow for a verification mechanism be established to monitor biological weapons programs in states parties.
At the 2006 Review Conference the JACKSNNZ states remain supportive of a verification protocol (although are unlikely to push for it knowing that the current US government will not accede on this point).
Takeshi Aoki, director of the Bioweapons and Chemical Weapons Conventions Division of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that JACKSNNZ is "neither a binding instrument, nor an exclusive one."