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NEPALI PRIORITIES REGARDING NON-PROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT: THE CASE OF MISSILES

6 & 7 February 2025

Hotel Mystic Mountain, Nagarkot, Nepal

The two-day workshop in Nagarkot assembled senior officials, leading researchers, and policy practitioners from Nepal, France, and the UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament to deliberate on Nepal’s emerging contributions to missile non-proliferation, evaluate regional security dynamics in South Asia, and chart pathways for integrating Nepal more fully into global disarmament regimes.

AGENDA

Day 1:

Introduction

  • Alexandre Houdayer, Secretary General, Fondation pour la Recherche stratégique (FRS)

  • Prakash Kumar Suvedi, Representative of IFA

  • Mr. Tapas Adhikari, Former Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nepal

  • Recorded message from the Amb. Stefan Klement, Special Envoy for Non-proliferation and Disarmament, EU

Session 1 : The global non-proliferation & disarmament architecture, the place of Nepal and the issue of means of delivery

Panellists:

  • Mr Aaron Junhoung Yoo, Deputy Director, UNRCPD
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  • Mr Prakash Kumar Suvedi, Executive Director of the Institute of Foreign Affairs

  • Ms Emmanuelle Maitre, Senior Research Fellow, FRS

    • Regional priorities regarding non-proliferation and disarmament

    • Position and policies of Nepal on non-proliferation and disarmament

    • The inclusion of “means of delivery” in arms control

Session 2 : The proliferation of ballistic missiles: current trends and security challenges

Panellists :

  • Mme Emmanuelle Maitre, Senior Research Fellow, FRS

 

  • Mr Thibault Fournol, Research Fellow, FRS

 

    • Why ballistic missiles can be considered as destabilizing weapons?

    • Who has ballistic missiles today? Why does it matter in the region?

group picture

Day 2:

Session 3 : The HCoC: a multilateral confidence-building measure dealing with ballistic missiles

Panellists:

  • Recorded presentation by Amb. Alexander Wetzig, Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Embassy and Permanent Mission of Chile to the International Organizations in Vienna, HCoC Chair

 

  • Recorded presentation by Mr George Wilhelm Gallhofer, Head of Nuclear Disarmament, Non-proliferation and Delivery Systems at the Austrian Foreign Ministry, HCoC ICC

 

  • Mr Alexandre Houdayer, Secretary General, FRS

    • What is the HCoC? What is its objective?

    • How does it work? What are the obligations of subscribing states?

    • Perspectives for non-subscribing states and challenges

Session 4 : Regulating a dual-use technology: the case of missiles

Panellists: 

  • Mr Alexandre Houdayer, Secretary General, FRS
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  • Mr. Ganesh Prasad Bhatta, Joint-Secretary in the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviations

  • Mr Aaron Junhoung Yoo, Deputy Director, UNRCPD

    • The importance of transparency regarding space and proximity between missiles and space launchers

    • Existing export control mechanism regarding missile and launcher technologies 
June
2022
Issue Briefs

The HCoC and Northeast Asian States

A majority of Northeast Asian states currently possess or seek to acquire ballistic missiles, producing a missile race and an increase in the number of tests as states are developing their capabilities further. Proliferation risks also remain high, and it is noteworthy that only South Korea and Japan have joined the MTCR.

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March
2022
Research Papers

The Hague Code of Conduct and Space

This paper considers the dual approach of the Code by analysing the similarities between launchers and ballistic missiles in light of new technical developments, and assessing the risk of missile technology proliferation. It also assesses the new trends and developments in the space sector that may have an impact on the ability of the HCoC to remain relevant in its efforts to curb the proliferation of ballistic launchers.

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