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discussed, inter alia, the strengthening of confidence-building measures,
such as pre-launch notifications and annual declarations of ballistic missiles,
space-launch vehicles and the importance of outreach activities to foster
the universalization of the HCOC, and thereby, increasing the number of
Subscribing States. Since the Ninth Regular Meeting in 2010, Iraq and the
Central African Republic have subscribed to the Code, bringing the number of
Subscribing States to 132.
Florence Mangin (France) handed over the Chairmanship of the Tenth
Regular Meeting of the HCOC to Nineta Barbulescu (Romania).
The Chairperson of the Conference emphasized the importance of the
Code together with the relevant United Nations General Assembly resolutions.
After reminding States that HCOC constituted one of the very few existing
multilateral instruments concerning the proliferation of ballistic missiles, the
Chair highlighted Romania’s objectives for the coming year. As matters of
priority, Romania would advance the full and comprehensive implementation
of the Code in all its aspects, conduct regional outreach activities for
advancing the process of HCOC universalization, deepen the relationships
with the United Nations and with other regional and multilateral organizations
and start preparations for the marking of the tenth anniversary since its
creation in 2002.
In the general debate, those Subscribing States making statements
reaffirmed the importance of HCOC as a unique confidence-building and
transparency instrument in the framework of multilateral efforts against
ballistic missile proliferation. They also noted the threat to international peace
and security posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and
their means of delivery.
It was agreed that the Eleventh HCOC Regular Meeting would be held
from 31 May to 1 June 2012 in Vienna under the chairmanship of the Republic
of Korea.
1540 Committee: implementation of Security Council
resolution 1540 (2004)
Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Security
Council unanimously adopted resolution 1540 (2004) on 28 April 2004, which
obliged all States to refrain from providing any form of support to non-State
actors that attempted to develop, acquire, manufacture, possess, transport,
Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan,
Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United
Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu,
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) and Zambia.