India’s Chairmanship of Wassenaar Arrangement

India officially assumed the chairmanship of Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) on January 1, 2023.

About Wassenaar Arrangement

  • The Wassenaar Arrangement is an elite club of countries which subscribe to arms export controls, similar to the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Missile Technology Control Regime.
  • The body came into being in 1996 to succeed the Cold War-era Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls. The name comes from Wassenaar, a suburb of The Hague, where the agreement to start such a multi-lateral cooperation was reached in 1995.
  • The Wassenaar Arrangement is seen by many as a successor to the erstwhile Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export ....
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