Missile Technology Control Regime

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By Jason Kelland 
December 21, 2022

From 17-21 October 2022, (click here) more than 210 experts from the Partner countries assembled in Montreux, Switzerland, for the Plenary Week of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). The Plenary marked Switzerland’s assumption of the Chair for the period 2022-2023.

On Monday and Tuesday, the Information Exchange Meeting (IEM) and the Licensing and Enforcement Experts Meeting (LEEM) discussed trends and recent developments in missile proliferation as well as best practices in effective export controls and counter proliferation. In parallel, the Technical Experts Meeting (TEM) started with its negotiations on amendments to the MTCR Technical Annex.

On Wednesday morning, the three experts groups of the MTCR convened in a Joint IEM-LEEM-TEM Meeting to discuss the topic of the MTCR and the emerging commercial space sector. Heads of Delegation also had an informal meeting to discuss issues related to the effectiveness and relevance of the MTCR....