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22nd February 2018 Vienna, Austria

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by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

What is Wassenaar? And why does it matter?

A terrorist organisation tries to buy military technology from Country A.  But Country A refuses to sell.  What is to stop the organisation from going to Country B and buying there? Welcome to the world of multilateral export control regimes. If you don’t know much about export control regimes, don’t worry: not many people do.  […]

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