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ANNEX U.K.EU support to the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation in the framework of the implementation of the EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

2. Description of the projects U.K.

2.1. Project 1: Promotion of the universality of the Code U.K.

2.1.1. Purpose of the project U.K.

While the number of subscribing States has attained the level of two thirds of all UN Member States, more needs to be done to achieve universality of the Code. At the Annual Meetings, the subscribing States noted that the reasons behind the reluctance of non-subscribing States to subscribe to the Code vary extensively, from general lack of awareness and understanding of the Code to more political reasons.

2.1.2. Results of the project U.K.

• increase awareness about, understanding and support of the Code,

• enhance interaction among subscribing and non-subscribing States to the Code,

• increase the number of subscribing States to the Code.

2.1.3. Description of the project U.K.

The project provides for the organisation of two workshops:

• an awareness raising workshop for the region with the greatest number of non-subscribing States.

  In Africa, the following countries have not subscribed to the Code: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Lesotho, Namibia, Republic of Congo, Somalia, Swaziland, Togo and Zimbabwe.

• a general workshop, following the model of the workshop that was organised in the margins of the 2007 Annual Meeting of subscribing States with focused and structured exchanges on technical and politico-security considerations related to ballistic missile proliferation and the relevance of the Code.