🚀 Call for Applications open! Join the 2nd Edition of the #HCoC Youth Group (2026-2027).
Organised by FRS and funded by the EU, this 18-month programme offers young professionals expert dialogues, research publication, and a workshop in Lithuania!
Deadline: 31/07/2026
Apply : tinyurl.com/dp6ff3kb
🚀 Call for Applications open! Join the 2nd Edition of the #HCoC Youth Group (2026-2027).
Organised by FRS and funded by the EU, this 18-month programme offers young professionals expert dialogues, research publication, and a workshop in Lithuania!
Deadline: 31/07/2026
Apply : tinyurl.com/dp6ff3kb
🌏 Last week, Simon Menet represented @frstrategie.bsky.social to the Asia Senior-Level Talks on Non-Proliferation #ASTOP
🤝 An opportunity to promote the #HCoC in the region
🙏 Thanks to the Japonese MoFA for the invitation & the EU for the support.
▶️ About ASTOP : www.mofa.go.jp/press/releas...
#5 — First use of the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) against Iran
📍Iran| March 2026
🚀US used PrSM for the first time in combat
#LaunchUpdates #PrSM #IranWar #BallisticMissiles #HCoC
🔗www.nonproliferation.eu/hcoc/first-use-of-the-pr...
#4 — FP-7 | flight Test
📍Ukraine | 27 Feb 2026
🇺🇦 Firepoint tested the FP-7, a 300 km range tactical ballistic missile.
#LaunchUpdates #FP7 #Ukraine #TacticalMissile #FirePoint #Hcoc
🔗www.nonproliferation.eu/hcoc/the-fp-7-a-new-shor...
Yesterday's workshop in Vienna highlighted the HCoC’s role in transparency, non-proliferation and space security 🚀🤝
Cooperation and political commitment remain essential.
Co-organized with VCDNP, Uruguay, Austria and the EU in Vienna
#HCoC #NonProliferation
#2 — Ariane 64 🇪🇺 | Maiden flight success
📍 Kourou | 12 Feb 2026
#LaunchUpdates #Ariane64 #EuropeanSpace #HeavyLauncher #HCoC
🔗https://shorturl.at/2XV3U
🚀 New series: Major launch events: space & missiles
#1 — CERES-2 🇨🇳 | Maiden flight failure
📍 Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre
📅17 Jan 2026
🔗https://url-shortener.me/DA5I
#LaunchUpdates #SpaceSafety #HCoC #MissileTests
🌍🚀 Nouvelle publication HCoC !
Ambitions spatiales & prévention de la prolifération : quel rôle pour le HCoC dans la sécurité africaine ?
Le HCoC comme levier de stabilité régionale 🛡️
📖 À lire : www.nonproliferation.eu/hcoc/entre-a...
#HCoC #NonProlifération #Afrique #SpaceSecurity
Amb. Alejandro Garofali (🇺🇾) on Uruguay’s Chairmanship of the #HCoC and recent outreach in Pretoria 🇿🇦.
Working to strengthen multilateralism and promote dialogue on global security. 🌍🤝
▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QA7...
#NonProliferation #InternationalSecurity #Multilateralism
🆕 The EU just adopted a new Council Decision in support of the #HCoC!
At a time of intense missile activity, the HCoC is a key confidence-building instrument.
@frstrategie.bsky.social is grateful to continue supporting its implementation.
#NonProliferation #InternationalSecurity
shorturl.at/WIEfE
🚨 Happening today! #HCoC webinar “The Shield and the Sword: The Impact of Ballistic Missile Defence on Missile Proliferation.”
⏰3 Dec. 2025 - 3:00 PM CET
with Etienne Marcuz & Emmanuelle Maitre, FRS, Sitki Egeli, Izmir University of Economics and Zuzanna Gwadera, IISS–UK
🎧 Nouveau podcast FRS | « Le Bouclier et l’Épée ».
Animé par Étienne Marcuz dans le cadre du projet #HCoC soutenu par l’UE, l’épisode propose une lecture claire du rapport "The Shield and the Sword" récemment publié, avec Emmanuelle Maitre et Stéphane Delory.
🎙️ tinyurl.com/4em695sf
#HCoC #Missiles
🚀 Space law and transparency, links between missiles and launchers, export control.
#HCoC #SpaceSecurity #PeacefulUses #AfricaSpace
Grateful to @eudiplomacy.bsky.social for its continuous support that allowed us to organise this seminar and to our partners DIRCO & VERTIC
Session 2: The Proliferation of Ballistic Missiles: Current Trends and Security Challenges
Emmanuelle Maitre @frstrategie.bsky.social, Ian Fleming Zhou @ianflemingvip.bsky.social and Noel Stott @vertic.bsky.social evoke the dynamics and risks associated to ballistic missiles proliferation
#HCoC
🚀Kicking-off in Pretoria
💼 #HCoC regional seminar " Missile Proliferation: What Role For Confidence-Building Measures Such As The HCoC?" is opening!
👥 With @frstrategie.bsky.social, @euinsa.bsky.social, DIRCO & @vertic.bsky.social
#NonProliferation #RSA #Security
💡 #DidYouKnow: #HCoC subscription is free and uses a standard nil form for annual declarations.
No extra budget, no red tape—just robust non-proliferation commitment.
#Transparency
📊 ECOWAS leading by example: 93% of member states subscribe to #HCoC vs global average of 75%.
Regional frameworks driving international security commitments 🎯
#ECOWAS #RegionalSecurity #WestAfrica #NonProliferation
🛰️ African space revolution: Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Angola building satellites
Key: Same tech that launches satellites can deliver weapons
#HCoC ensures transparent, peaceful space development as capabilities expand
#AfricanSpace #DualUseTech #SpaceSecurity
📜 What role for non-proliferation mechanisms?
- Arms control complicated by blurred lines between strategic & regional defence
- MTCR (Missile Technology Control Regime) helps but limited role
- The #HCoC increases transparency and could evolve to include interceptors & targets in test notifications
🚀 New report | The Shield and the Sword: the impact of ballistic missile defence on missile proliferation
A study by FRS for the #HCoC EU project looks at offence/defence dynamics & their implications for arms control. By Emmanuelle Maitre & Stéphane Delory
👉 tinyurl.com/4wffcfyy 🧵👇
📖 🆕 🚀 What are the relationship between ballistic missile defence and missile proliferation?
@frstrategie.bsky.social
experts explore this complex relation between shield and sword in this new study
#GoldenDome #ballisticmissiles #armscontrol #HCoC
🔗https://tinyurl.com/2a2vvdhe
🚨 Ballistic systems circulating illegally via maritime routes pose risks to Africa. Insufficient border controls and limited maritime surveillance increase continental vulnerability
The #HCoC provides frameworks to address these dual-use technology challenges
#MaritimeSecurity #AfricanSecurity
🌍 Remarkable trend: 4 of 5 most recent #HCoC subscribers are African:
Togo (2019)
Equatorial Guinea (2020)
Somalia (2020)
São Tomé & Príncipe (2023)
Africa leading global momentum for missile non-proliferation ✊
#AfricanLeadership #NonProliferation #GlobalSecurity
SESSION 3: Deep dive into the HCoC with:
▪️ Alexandre Houdayer @frstrategie.bsky.social
▪️ Amb. Garofali (HCoC Chair)
▪️ @gwg-mfa.bsky.social, Executive secretariat, BMEIA
🔍 What is HCoC? How does it work? Obligations for subscribing states? 145 countries already on board!
#HagueCode #CBM #HCoC
⚡SESSION 2 : prolifération des missiles balistiques : tendances actuelles & défis sécuritaires.
🗣️ E.Maitre (@frstrategie.bsky.social), Eva-Nour Repussard (BASIC) évoquent les tendances & risques associés à la prolifération des missiles balistiques
#BallisticMissiles #SecurityChallenges #HCoC
🚀AUJOURD'HUI À DJIBOUTI
L'atelier "Priorités pour Djibouti en matière de Non-prolifération" commence!
💼 Journée cruciale pour renforcer la sécurité régionale et promouvoir le #HCoC
👥 Avec @frstrategie.bsky.social, UE à Djibouti & nos partenaires djiboutiens
#NonProliferation #Djibouti #Security
Chinese military parade offers a glimpse on its #ballisticmissile programme.
▶️ Learn more about China's position on missile proliferation and especially the #HCoC here: www.nonproliferation.eu/hcoc/the-hco...
What are missile proliferation current and future challenges ? The #HCoC Youth Group proposes ways forward in this new report, exploring:
▶️Regional dimensions
▶️Non-state actors
▶️Adapting regularory instruments
▶️Space dimensions.
Read the report here: shorturl.at/62lvu
