Newsletter

Issue #6

December 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

  • Insights From The Chair: The Uruguayan Vision For The HCoC

News about the Project

  • Workshop on the HCoC in Djibouti
  • Youth Group Report
  • Regional Seminar in Pretoria
  • The Sword and the Shield: Report and Webinar
  • Security, Technology, and Cooperation: The Future of the HCoC

News about Ballistic Missiles & Launchers

  • New strategic systems in China
  • Missile parade in DPRK
  • Selected missiles tests
  • Selected SLV launches

Selected Missiles Tests

Selected SLV Launches

Selected Publications

Information and contact

Research Papers

Ballistic missiles and conventional strike weapons: Adapting the HCoC to address the dissemination of conventional ballistic missiles

The Hague Code of Conduct aims at curbing the proliferation of missiles capable of carrying weapons of mass destruction. Today, with an important increase in ranges, these weapons are more and more used for a conventional mission, by a variety of states. This dissemination illustrates the fact that many stakeholders master the technologies necessary to build and sustain these weapons. But it also raises questions on the possible destabilising effects of these arsenals, even when they are not linked to WMDs.

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Other publications

Ballistic missile proliferation: what should be the role of a small state?

On 15 January 2019, the Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka (INSSSL) and the FRS held a South Asia Regional Seminar “Dealing with the missile threat in South Asia” with the support of the European Union. This explainer on ballistic missile proliferation explains a few key aspects of the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC) in relation to small states with special reference to Sri Lanka.

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