WELCOMING REMARKS 

• Mr Alexandre HOUDAYER, Secretary General, FRS
• Mr Patrick GEYSEN, Head of the Political, Press and Information Section, Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Djibouti

I/ CONTRIBUTION OF THE UNREC IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PERTINENT NON-PROLIFERATION INSTRUMENTS BY AFRICAN STATES 

• Ms Maïté FRANCOIS, Judicial Affairs Specialist, UNREC

II/ THE HCoC: KEY INSTRUMENT TO PROMOTE CONFIDENCE IN THE FIELD OF WMD DELIVERY VEHICULES 

MODERATOR:

• Ms Agnès LEVALLOIS, Senior Research Fellow, FRS

PRESENTERS:

• Amb. Kjersti Ertresvaag ANDERSEN, Ambassador of Norway to Austria, HCoC Chair, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
• Mr Alexandre HOUDAYER, Secretary General, FRS
• Amb. Georg PÖSTINGER, Ambassador of Austria to Saudi Arabia, representative of the HCOC Immediate Central Contact (ICC), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Austria

KEY ISSUES:

• Contribution of the Code to international security
• Being a Subscribing State: commitments and benefits
• Day-to-day implementation of the Code

III/ THE PROLIFERATION OF MISSILES, A REGIONAL THREAT? 

MODERATOR:

• Mr Alexandre HOUDAYER, Secretary General, FRS

PRESENTERS:

• Ms Agnès LEVALLOIS, Senior Research Fellow, FRS
• Dr Sitki EGELI, Assistant Professor, Izmir University of Economics
• Mr Jean MASSON, Research Fellow, FRS

KEY ISSUES:

• Missile proliferation in the Gulf of Aden: what dynamics?
• Trafficking and missiles proliferation risks in the Horn of Africa
• The role of transparency instruments in the case of missiles