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The HCoC as an effective risk reduction tool

11 April 2024

Vienna 

On 11 April 2024, the FRS organised a side event in the margins of the HCoC Annual Regular Meeting.

AGENDA

At a time of crisis of the arms control architecture, the Hague Code of Conduct plays an important role to bring transparency on potentially destabilising weapons and behaviours. In addition to its official purpose of curbing the proliferation of ballistic missiles, it is now key as part of risk reduction measures.

This side event assessed this function and discussed the specific dimension of the HCoC as a risk reduction measure.

 

 

Introduction

  • Mr Stefan Tressing, European External Action Service (EEAS), European Union
  • Amb. Eoin O’Leary, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ireland to the International Organisations in Vienna, HCoC Chair 2023-2024
  • Amb. Alex Wetzig Abdale, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Chile to the International Organisations in Vienna, HCoC Chair 2024-2025

 

Main session: Upcoming trends in missile proliferation

 MODERATOR:

  • Mr Alexandre Houdayer, Secretary General, FRS


PANELLISTS:

  • Ms Pamela Durham, Director, Office of Missile, Biological, and Chemical Weapons Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State
  • Mr Takanobu Sato, Assistant Director, Non-Proliferation, Science and Nuclear Energy Division, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
  • Dr Marion Messmer, Senior Research Fellow, International Security Programme, Chatham House
  • Ms Nivedita Raju, Researcher, Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme, SIPRI
February
2019
Research Papers

Opening HCoC to cruise missiles: A proposal to overcome political hurdles

The issue of extending the scope of the Hague Code of Conduct to cruise missiles is regularly raised in academic and political discussions about the Code. Some non-subscribing States justify their refusal to join the instrument because of this exclusion, perceived as a major flaw. Indeed, cruise missiles have characteristics that can make them very effective in carrying weapons of mass destruction. It is therefore clearly of interest to consider extending the HCoC scope to these weapons.

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January
2018
Research Papers

The use of the existing WMD free zones as an exemple and a potential Framework for further initiatives banning ballistic missiles

Taken as a wide-ranging notion, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have not produced significant instruments in international security over time, UNSCR1540 being an exception. As such, there are no existing WMD free zones (WMDFZ) which can be used as examples and as potential frameworks for further initiatives banning ballistic missiles.

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