13Jun2016

CENTRE at the Conference on Managing Arms Exports held in Brussels

The COARM-NGO conference ''Risky business: Managing arms exports to MENA in times of trouble'' will be held in Brussels on June 14. Taking in consideration the CENTRE's expertise, Svetlana Djurdjevic Lukic will take part in it as the only representative from the Western Balkans. 

The conference will adress numerous questions regarding not only the arms exports itself, but also EU's regulation of arms trade. Participants will discuss some of the key terms and provisions of the EU Common Position on arms exports and of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Furthermore, they will consider implications of these upon the arms exports in the MENA region focusing primarly cases such as Syria, Iraq, Egypt. 

In the field of arms control, CENTRE was comissioned to carry out a UNDP SEESAC research Targeting Weapons. It published a paper concerning small arms and human security in the Western Balkans. CENTRE initiated meetings and debates on the draft Law on Arms Production and Trade in the working group on the Chapter 31 within the National Convention on the European Union.

The photo source: European Parliament