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NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL NEGOTIATIONS [2 records]

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Record 1 2011-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Trade
OBS

Canada's export control guidelines were adopted as a national regime consistent with our international obligations as specified by COCOM(the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Strategic Export Controls) of which Canada had been a member since 1950. COCOM was originally intended to preserve Western technological superiority by reducing the flow of military, dual-use and nuclear technologies from Western industrial nations to the Soviet bloc and other Communist countries. COCOM was abolished on March 31, 1994, and has been replaced by a modified agreement. Named after the town of Wassenaar, outside The Hague, where five rounds of negotiations took place between 1993 and 1995, the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-use Goods and Technologies is intended to provide a framework for addressing the new security threats of the post-Cold War world.

Key term(s)
  • Co-ordinating Committee for Multilateral Strategic Export Controls

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Commerce
OBS

Les lignes directrices du Canada portant sur le contrôle des exportations ont été adoptées sous la forme d'un régime national conforme aux obligations internationales du Canada précisées par le Comité de coordination du contrôle des échanges stratégiques (COCOM), dont le Canada est membre depuis 1950. Le COCOM avait au départ pour mandat de préserver la supériorité technologique de l'Occident en réduisant l'exportation des technologies militaires, nucléaires et à double usage des nations industrielles occidentales vers l'Union soviétique et d'autres pays communistes. Le COCOM a été aboli le 31 mars 1994 et remplacé par une entente modifiée. L'Arrangement de Wassenaar relatif au contrôle multilatéral des exportations pour les armes conventionnelles et les marchandises et technologies à double usage (d'après la ville du même nom située à proximité de la Haye, où cinq séries de négociations ont eu lieu entre 1993 et 1995), vise à fournir un cadre permettant de faire échec aux nouvelles menaces à la sécurité dans le monde de l'après-guerre froide.

Spanish

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Record 2 1996-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • CBRNE Weapons
  • War and Peace (International Law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes CBRNE
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)

Spanish

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