UNGA Side Event – The HCoC and Space
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
This virtual Side Event was organised on 13 October 2021 on the Margins of the UNGA First Committee.
This panel was part of the UNIDIR 2021 Space Security Conference, which took place from 27 to 28 September at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
HCoC members states met for the 20th Annual Regular Meeting in Vienna on 7-8 July 2021. The FRS organised a virtual-side event on 6 July 2021, dedicated to participants to the meeting but also open to any states, experts, researchers or representatives from the industry.
The FRS organised on 14 January 2021 a webinar with the support of the EU dedicated to the integration of the HCoC within multilateral mechanism and further avenues to curb ballistic proliferation.
On 29 October 2021, FRS organised a Side-Event in the margins of the UNGA First Committee, discussing the State of Ballistic Missile Proliferation Today.
On 3 June 2020, UNIDIR with the support of FRS, Secure World Foundation and the EU, dedicated one episode of its virtual seminar series “The Launchpad” to the links between rockets, missiles and missile defense and especially explored the role of the Hague Code of Conduct as a confidence-building measure.
On 9 October 2019, FRS organised a side event on the Hague Code of Conduct and Ballistic Missile Non-Proliferation in the margins of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, and on behalf of the European Union.
On 3 June 2019, the FRS conducted a Side Event on the Hague Code of Conduct and Space, in the margins of the HCoC Annual Regular Meeting in Vienna.
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