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Wassenaar Arrangement

"The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies" is an arms control arrangement with 33 participating states. It was established after the end of the Cold War as the successor to COCOM. A Secretariat for administrating the agreement is located in Vienna, Austria.

The 33 founding states were: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Republic of Korea, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States.

As of March 2002, it seems that no other states have joined the arrangement since it was founded.

External link

http://www.wassenaar.org