SIPRI’s Hugh Griffiths continues to contribute to the New York-based United Nations Panel of Experts monitoring sanctions on North Korea.
November saw the second of two regional workshops aimed at engaging the Transport Service Providers (TSPs) as counter-proliferation partners. The workshop took place in Hong Kong for the Asia Pacific (ASPAC) region, following the first workshop in Malta in September.
September saw the first of two regional workshops aimed at engaging Transport Service Providers (TSPs) as counter-proliferation partners, take place in Malta for the Middle East and North Africa region.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed SIPRI Senior Researcher Hugh Griffiths to the UN Panel of Experts monitoring UN sanctions on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea).
On 13 May Hugh Griffiths (right), head of SIPRI's Countering Illicit Trafficking–Mechanism Assessment Projects (CIT-MAP), briefed a meeting of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Operational Experts Group (OEG) at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
On 26 September SIPRI Senior Researcher Hugh Griffiths testified before the US House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee. Griffiths was invited to testify on maritime trafficking and proliferation in relation to North Korea and Cuba by the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.
SIPRI researchers Lawrence Dermody, Aaron Dunne and Hugh Griffiths presented recent maritime and customs-related research at an expert seminar in Stockholm today organized by the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI).
The expert seminar, entitled Complex Proliferation Mechanics: Mapping Critical Information, was opened by former Chief United Nations Weapons Inspector Hans Blix and involved foreign ministry and other government agency staff from eight countries.
A ground-breaking SIPRI investigation of a North Korean ship involved in violating United Nations arms embargoes has been published by the online portal 38 North.
On 29 May SIPRI Senior Researcher Hugh Griffiths presented new research on arms flows to Syrian government and opposition forces from European and Middle Eastern states at an event in Madrid hosted by the Spanish Institute for International Affairs and Foreign Policy (INCIPE).
The invitation-only two-hour lecture was attended by Spanish government representatives and members of the diplomatic community in Madrid.
On 19 March SIPRI Senior Researcher Hugh Griffiths, Head of the Countering Illicit Trafficking-Mechanism Assessment Projects (CIT-MAP), spoke at a public hearing at the European Parliament organized by the Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) in Brussels.
On 14–16 November Dr Sibylle Bauer, Director of SIPRI’s Dual-use and Arms Trade Control Programme, gave a presentation on the control lists of the nonproliferation regimes and their relation to the harmonized customs code at the first World Customs Organization (WCO) conference on Strategic Trade Controls Enforcement in Brussels.