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"The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies" is an arms control arrangement with 39 participating states. It was established as the successor to COCOM on the 12th of May in 1996, after the end of the Cold War. A Secretariat for administrating the agreement is located in Vienna, Austria. Arms control is a broad term alluding to a range of political concepts and aims. ... CoCom is an acronym for Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls. ... United States President John F. Kennedy and Soviet General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev meet in a 1961 summit held in Vienna, Austria at the height of the Cold War. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Croatian and Serbian: Beč Romanian: Viena, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya, Russian: Вена) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ...

  • The outline of the arrangement is set out in a document entitled "Guidelines & Procedures, including the Initial Elements" [1].
  • The 1996 list of technologies can be found at [2]. Software is not included as a restricted technology if it is "generally available to the public" or "in the public domain".


The 39 participating states are:


Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States.


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U. S. Bureau of Industry and Security - Wassenaar (297 words)
The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies, is one of four multilateral export control regimes in which the United States participates.
The Arrangement's purpose is to contribute to regional and international security and stability by promoting transparency and greater responsibility in transfers of conventional arms and dual-use (i.e.
The agreement establishing the Wassenaar Arrangement, called the initial elements, was approved by its 33 founding countries in July 1996.
U. S. Bureau of Industry and Security - Wassenaar FAQs (1412 words)
The Wassenaar Arrangement is also designed to deal firmly with states whose behavior is a cause for serious concern by preventing, through shared national policies of restraint, their acquisition of armaments and sensitive dual-use goods and technologies for military end-use.
The Wassenaar Arrangement is designed to complement and reinforce, without duplication, the existing regimes for weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems.
The Arrangement does not interfere with the rights of states to acquire legitimate means with which to defend themselves pursuant to Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, nor does it, as mentioned, impede bona fide civil transactions.
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