By Mike Nartker
Global Security Newswire

WASHINGTON — The Missile Technology Control Regime, an export control arrangement with more than 30 members, held its annual plenary meeting last week in Warsaw to review the regime’s activities and strengthen its efforts against missile proliferation (see GSN, Sept. 26).

Meeting participants agreed to continue to pursue contacts with nonmembers and to make several changes to the regime’s control list.  They issued a joint action calling for increased efforts to prevent terrorists groups from obtaining items on the control list.  The participants agreed to hold the 2004 plenary meeting in Seoul, while Argentina plans to chair the 2003 meeting in Buenos Aires, the MTCR said in a press release Friday.

Meanwhile, the signing ceremony for the International Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation, a complementary agreement to the MTCR, is to be held Nov. 25-26 in The Hague, the MTCR said (see GSN, Aug. 23).

For further information, see:

U.S. State Department MTCR Summary

Draft International Code of Conduct (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)

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