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Regional disarmament
of arms control agreements, conventions and treaties concluded by the States
of South-Eastern Europe.
Arms control was once a keystone of the programme policy of
RACVIAC–Centre for Security Cooperation, but over the years it has fallen
out of favour with many regional policymakers. Politicians, however, have
started to recognize arms control as a crucial factor in international security,
acknowledging its indispensable role in security policy and realizing that it is
needed now more than ever, although in a different form.
In that regard, the Centre conducted training courses and seminars that
contributed to a common understanding of the existing agreements to which
the countries of the region are signatories.
In 2011, the Centre conducted the following eight activities (attended by
a total of 248 participants) on arms control, disarmament, non-proliferation
and confidence- and security-building measures:
• Oslo Convention—Workshop on Cluster Munitions, which was aimed
at sharing the latest developments related to the implementation of the
Convention on Cluster Munitions; 53
• Chemical Weapons Convention Seminar, which provided an overview
of the Chemical Weapons Convention implementation procedures and of
specific conditions in the region;
• Dayton Article IV Course, which aimed to inform and educate the
participants on the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia
and Herzegovina (Dayton Agreement) 54 and to train the participants
in their roles as inspectors and escorts within the framework of the
Agreement on Sub-Regional Arms Control;
• Vienna Document 199955 Formation/Unit Commanders’ Course, which
provided Formation/Unit Commanders with an overview of the Vienna
Document 1999 and gave guidance for practical implementation;
• Customs Procedures and Licensing Issuance: Integrating the National
Processing of Dual Use Goods and Conventional Weapons through
Information Sharing, which provided participants with extensive
knowledge on the best practices in the field of processing dual-use goods
and conventional weapons;
• Physical Security and Stockpile Management Course, which trained
executive managers to assess national stockpiles, operational procedures
and infrastructure;
53 Treaty text and status of adherence are available from http://disarmament.un.org/treaties.
54 Office of the High Representative and EU Special Representative, “General Framework
Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. Available from http://www.ohr.int/dpa/
default.asp?content_id=380 (accessed 8 June 2012).
55 Available from http://www.osce.org/fsc/41276 (accessed 13 June 2012).
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