Council of the European Union — 3023rd Council meeting Part 2

The Coun­cil approved an ninth annu­al report on the EU’s con­tri­bu­tion to com­bat­ing the desta­bil­is­ing accu­mu­la­tion and spread of small arms and light weapons as laid down in joint action 2002/589/CFSP (9997/10).

It also endorsed a six-month­ly progress report on imple­men­ta­tion of the EU’s strat­e­gy in this field.

Weapons of mass destruc­tion — Progress report

The Coun­cil endorsed a report on imple­men­ta­tion of the EU’s strat­e­gy for com­bat­ing the pro­lif­er­a­tion of weapons of mass destruc­tion cov­er­ing activ­i­ties dur­ing the first half of 2010. The report, which cores the first half of 2010, focus­es on work car­ried out on pri­or­i­ty areas such as:

– the EU’s role in mul­ti­lat­er­al dis­ar­ma­ment and non-pro­lif­er­a­tion fora and inter­na­tion­al organisations;

– con­tin­ued polit­i­cal and finan­cial sup­port to projects, includ­ing assis­tance pro­grammes to third countries;

– coop­er­a­tion with inter­na­tion­al part­ners towards a glob­al con­ver­gence of views on the need to pro­mote all objec­tives con­tained in the treaty on the non-pro­lif­er­a­tion of nuclear weapons;

– address­ing pro­lif­er­a­tion crises of par­tic­u­lar con­cern around the world;

– imple­men­ta­tion of the list of pri­or­i­ties endorsed by the Coun­cil in June 2008, as well as the “new lines for action by the EU in com­bat­ing the pro­lif­er­a­tion of weapons of mass destruc­tion and their deliv­ery sys­tems”, adopt­ed by the Coun­cil in Decem­ber 2008; and

– the effi­cient use of finan­cial resources in order to max­imise the impact of EU activ­i­ties in this field.

Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of the Con­go — EU police mission

The Coun­cil adopt­ed a deci­sion extend­ing by three months the EU police mis­sion under­tak­en in sup­port of the reform of the secu­ri­ty sec­tor in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of the Con­go. The deci­sion extends the mis­sion, estab­lished under joint action 2007/405/CFSP, from 1 July 2010 to 30 Sep­tem­ber 2010, with a finan­cial ref­er­ence amount of EUR 2. 02 million.

The three month exten­sion was endorsed by the Polit­i­cal and Secu­ri­ty Com­mit­tee on 13 April, fol­low­ing con­sul­ta­tions with the Con­golese author­i­ties and oth­er par­ties concerned 

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