FRS organises a series of regional and/or sub-regional events, as well as country-specific expert missions. In other events, you can find our recent UNGA First Committee and HCoC ARM side-events, participation at the UNIDIR Space Security Conference and other external events. To find out more, go to our Project Activities
On 22-23 January 2025, the FRS in collaboration with the government of the Philippines hosted a regional seminar dedicated to Asia-Pacific. More than 50 participants representing 12 countries took part to this event.
On 22 October 2024, the FRS will hold a side-event in the margins of the UN General Assembly First Committee, which will explore the links between the Hague Code of Conduct and space security.
Costa Rica hosted a regional seminar on 2-3 July 2024 in San José dedicated to Latin American and Caribbean States. The HCoC Chair, Chile, was in particular represented to the meeting, as well as around 20 regional states.
On 11 April 2024, FRS organised a side-event in the margins of the HCoC Annual Regular Meeting in Vienna. The side-event allowed participants to reflect on how the HCoC is used to reduce the risks of misunderstanding and miscalculation created by the deployment of missiles and why it is a valuable multilateral tool.
On 19-21 March 2024, as part of the European Union’s decision to support HCoC, the FRS organised a visit to NARO space centre (Republic of Korea), in close cooperation with the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Science and ICT and KARI.
In January 2024, the Foundation for Strategic Research and the B’huth co-organised a seminar in Dubai (UAE) to engage with representatives from 10 countries and key actors from the region. This is part of a series of seminars organised all over the globe by the Foundation to spread awareness on the role of the Hague Code of Conduct with the support of the European Union.
The HCoC Youth Group attended the 3 days Ballistic Missile Proliferation Workshop in Paris from 25-27 October 2023.
On 28 June 2023, the HCoC Ballistic Missile Youth Group was officially kicked off. 17 fellows will work on these key issues until 2027.
A regional seminar was held on 22 & 23 June 2023 in Abuja, Nigeria, to discuss ballistic missile proliferation with a selection of African countries.
On 15 June 2023, FRS organised a side-event in the margins of the HCoC Annual Regular Meeting in Vienna. The side-event presented the main trends regarding missile proliferation, and to assess how they are influencing the arms control architecture aimed at reducing the destabilizing nature of these weapon systems.
On 17 January 2023, FRS organised a webinar to discuss its recently published report on North Korea’s short range ballistic missiles. The authors of the study presented their main findings and Vann van Diepen assessed the contribution of this report to our understanding of North Korea’s military strategy.
On 13-16 December, as part of the European Union’s decision to support HCoC, the FRS organised a visit to Europe’s spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana), in close cooperation with the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) and the French authorities in French Guiana.
Dr Xavier Pasco explained how the Hague Code of Conduct participates to space security during the UNIDIR Space Security Conference on 1st November 2022, in Geneva.
This event is organised by the European Union, with the support of FRS, to mark the 20th Anniversary of the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCoC) in the margins of the UNGA First Committee.
The 20th anniversary of HCoC provides the opportunity to make a further step towards the universalization of the Code through a side-event held in New York in the margins of the First Committee of the UNGA. This side-event will also promote the adoption of a new UNGA resolution in support of the Code.
On 1st June 2022, the FRS, with the support of the EU as well as the government of France and of the Netherlands, organised an event marking the 20th Anniversary of the Hague Code of Conduct.
On 17 May 2022, FRS experts met with a delegation of researchers and officials from the United Arab Emirates in Dubai (UAE). The meeting aimed at discussing about trends in missile proliferation in the region, the benefits of joining the Code for states of the region, the challenges facing the Code, as well as to exchange perspectives on dual-use technologies control.
A new virtual event was held on 5 & 6 April 2022 to engage on the Hague Code of Conduct with delegations from 7 ASEAN countries.
On 17 February 2022, Katarzyna Kubiak discussed her recently published paper on how open source intelligence can be mobilised to track missile development, and therefore contribute to the goal pursued by the Hague Code of Conduct.
On 23 November 2021, the FRS and representatives from the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo discussed over ballistic missile proliferation and the role of the Hague Code of Conduct. This event took the form of a hybrid event with representatives of RDC gathering in Kinshasa and experts from FRS, the EU, the Argentinian Chair, Austria and UNREC presenting virtually.
This virtual Side Event was organised on 13 October 2021 on the Margins of the UNGA First Committee.
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