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What is the role of the Wassenaar Arrangement?
The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies, the first global multilateral arrangement covering both conventional weapons and sensitive dual-use goods and technologies, received final approval by 33 co-founding countries in July 1996 and began operations in September 1996. As a means of contributing to international and regional security and stability, the Arrangement was designed to prevent destabilizing accumulations of arms and dual-use goods and technologies by establishing a process of transparency, consultation and, where appropriate, encouraging national policies of restraint, and by promoting greater responsibility and accountability in transfers of arms and dual-use goods and technologies.
Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS),USDOC
http://www.bis.doc.gov/wassenaar/default.htm
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