Lode Dewaegheneire

RESPONSABILITIES In the field of arms control and humanitarian disarmament: • Provide Politico - Military expertise to the Department of Foreign Affairs in the various international disarmament fora. • Represent the Belgian Defence, nationally and internationally • Ensure compliance with commitments made by Belgian Defense within the different relevant laws, treaties and conventions ASSIGNED CONTENTS: • Landmines (anti-personnel and anti-tank) : OTTAWA Convention, Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW, UN) • Cluster munitions: Oslo Convention • Small arms & light weapons: non-proliferation, trade (UN, OSCE, EU) PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL FORA (as a member of the Belgian delegation): • Ottawa Convention: all the Meetings of States Parties and intersessional meetings since 2007. Coordinator of the contact group on Article 7 transparency measures. • CCW: all meetings of the Group of Governmental Experts and Conferences of the High Contracting Parties since 2008. Coordinator for national reporting for the Additional Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War (Prot V). • Oslo Convention: participation in regional conferences in Berlin (2009) and Santiago (2010) and all the Meetings of States Parties and intersessional meetings. Coordinator of the contact group on Article 7 transparency measures