India assumed the chairmanship of the plenary of the Wassenaar Arrangement on January 1, 2023 for one year.
Key points
- The 42-member Wassenaar Arrangement is a voluntary export control regime that monitors transfers of conventional weapons and dual-use goods.
- At the 26th annual plenary of the Wassenaar Arrangement held in Vienna during November 30-December 1, Ireland’s ambassador Eoin O’Leary handed over the chairmanship to India’s ambassador Jaideep Mazumdar, who is the permanent representative to the UN and international organisations in Vienna.
- India joined the Wassenaar Arrangement in December 2017 as its 42nd participating state.
- The Wassenaar Arrangement is a multilateral export control regime that works to promote transparency and greater responsibility in transfers of conventional arms and dual-use goods and technologies through regular exchanges of information among its members.
- The regime is aimed at tracking such transfers and preventing “destabilising accumulations” of conventional arms and dual-use goods.
