The United States supports the draft proposal of an international code of conduct, approved during a recent conference in Paris, to slow the proliferation of ballistic missiles, U.S. State Department officials said yesterday (see GSN, Feb. 11).  The code is meant to supplement, and not replace, the Missile Technology Control Regime, the officials said.

“The draft International Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation is intended to create a widely subscribed international predisposition against ballistic missile proliferation,” the officials said in a statement.  “It contains a set of broad principles, general commitments and modest building measures.  It is intended to be a voluntary political commitment, not a treaty, and will be open to all countries” (U.S. State Department release, Feb. 11).

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