Supporting the Hague Code of Conduct

an FRS project funded by the European Union

Newsletter

Issue #1

June 2023

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

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CONTENTS

Latest HCoC News

Annual Regular Meeting in Vienna
Fifth EU Council Decision in Support of the HCoC
Looking Back on the Nigerian Chairmanship of the HCoC

News about the Project

Side-Event in Vienna on Upcoming Trends For Ballistic Missile Non-proliferation
Youth Group Creation
Regional Seminar in Nigeria

News about the Ballistic Missiles & Launchers

North Korea Tests a Solid-Fuel ICBM
Suspension of the New Start Treaty

Selected Missiles Tests

Selected SLV Launches

Information and contacts

October
2021

Research Papers

The HCoC and China

China is currently the main ballistic missile possessor and spacefaring nation which remains outside the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCoC). This can be explained by China’s traditional opacity regarding its deployment of strategic missiles, but also its exports of ballistic systems or technologies abroad. This absence is nonetheless problematic for a regime based on voluntary transparency and confidence-building which aims at universality.

June
2021

The Hague Code of Conduct and the Caribbean

Caribbean states have regularly joined the HCoC since its adoption in 2002, showing a steady interest in the Code. But despite this, the current level of subscription remains low, with half of the 16 Caribbean states having signed it.

November
2023

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Newsletter #2 – November 2023

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

This project is implemented by the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique

The project is funded
by the European Union