Newsletter

Issue #5

June 2025

Read news of the Code, updates on our recent activities and latest information about ballistic missile tests and space launches.

CONTENTS

Latest HCoC News

  • Uruguay designated as HCoC Chair for 2025-2026
  • HCoC Annual Regular Meeting
  • Looking Back at the Chilean Chairmanship

News about the Project

  • Side Event in the Margins of the ARM
  • Final Meeting of the Youth Group
  • Regional Seminar in the Philippines
  • HCoC Workshop in Nepal

News about Ballistic Missiles & Launchers

  • New MTCR Policy Published the the State Department
  • Japan’s Hypersonic Developments

Selected Missiles Tests

Selected SLV Launches

Information and contact

Other publications

The HCoC: relevance to African states

The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCoC), which came into effect on 25 November 2002, aims to strengthen efforts to curb ballistic missile proliferation worldwide, thereby supplementing the Missile Technology Control Regime, which restricts access to technologies needed to develop such systems. Ballistic missiles are the favoured delivery vehicles for weapons of mass destruction and therefore have a destabilising effect on regional and global security.

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Research Papers

The HCoC: current challenges and future possibilities

The Hague Code of Conduct (HCoC), currently the only game in town on its topic, marked its 10th anniversary in 2012. It has generated membership comfortably into three figures, and its supporters have tried valiantly to help it make progress. However, even its most enthusiastic admirers would concede that has not fulfilled the hopes and expectations of its founders when they gathered for the opening ceremony in November 2002.

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