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Promoting Space Exploration while discouraging missile proliferation: the role of the HCoC

28 May 2018

On 8 May 2018, in cooperation with UNIDIR, the FRS organised a seminar at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on « Promoting Space Exploration while discouraging missile proliferation: the role of the Hague Code of Conduct »

AGENDA

WELCOMING REMARKS 

  • Dr. Xavier PASCO, Director, FRS
  • Dr. Renata DWAN, Director, UNIDIR
  • François RIVASSEAU, Special Envoy for Space of the European External Action Service (EEAS)

 

I/ THE ‘HCoC’: WHAT ROLE IN PROMOTING THE PEACEFUL USE OF SPACE? 

MODERATOR

  • Ms Emmanuelle MAITRE, Research fellow, FRS

 

PRESENTERS:

  • Amb. Marek SZCZYGIEŁ, Ambassador at large, Security Policy Department, MFA of Poland, HCoC Chair 2017-2018
  • Sebastien MORANTA, Coordinator of Studies, European Space Policy Institute (ESPI)
  • Dr. Robert GERSCHNER, Head of Immediate Central Contact (Executive Secretariat), Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of Austria

 

KEY ISSUES:

  • Contribution of the Code to international security, including the field of space
  • Being a subscribing state: commitments and benefits
  • Day-to-day implementation of the Code
  • Impact of the Code on national space development

II/ FROM MISSILE TO LAUNCHER, AND BACK AGAIN? PROLIFERATION & DISSEMINATION IN THE FIELD OF SPACE

MODERATOR:

  • Daniel PORRAS, Space Security Fellow, UNIDIR

 

PRESENTERS:

  • Dr. Xavier PASCO, Director, FRS
  • Tal INBAR, Head of the Space and UAV Research Center, Israel’s Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies
  • Dr. Markus SCHILLER, ST Analytics GmbH

 

KEY ISSUES:

  • Theoric and empiric studies of double-use of launcher technologies
  • Launchers and Missiles: case studies
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