Newsletter

Issue #3

April 2024

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

CONTENTS

Latest HCoC News

  • Qatar announces its subscription to the Code
  • Chile takes over as new HCoC Chair
  • Looking back at the Irish Chairmanship of the HCoC

News about the Project

  • Side-Event in the Margins of the ARM
  • Middle East Regional Seminar organised in the UAE
  • HCoC Research Paper No°13 published

News about the Ballistic Missiles & Launchers

  • Iranian Missiles Reportedly Shipped to Russia
  • Missiles Launches in the Middle East

Selected Missiles Tests

Selected SLV Launches

Information and contacts

Issue Briefs

The HCoC and African States

While both ballistic programmes and the risk posed by these systems remain very limited on the African continent, ballistic missiles inherently constitute a global risk – due to their range and destructive potential. Instruments such as the HCoC, which seek to limit the proliferation of such systems, are therefore relevant for African countries.

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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.

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