India-Wiesbaden Conference 2018

TNPSC Current Affairs - April 2018 by TNPSC Guru

India –Wiesbaden Conference 2018 held in New Delhi hosted by Ministry of external Affairs in cooperation with Government of Germany and United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA).

The title of the conference is “Securing Global Supply Chains through Government-Industry Partnerships towards Effective Implementation of UNSC Resolution 1540”

About UNSC Resolution 1540. 

• In 2004 United Nation Security Council has voted to adopt Resolution 1540, with aim to prevent the non-state actors that attempt to develop, acquire, manufacture nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, their means of delivery, and related materials.
• Therefore states should implement appropriate and effective measures to prevent non-state actors such as terrorists, from obtaining access to weapons of mass destruction .

About Wiesbaden Process 

• It is a process initiated by Germany to strengthen the implementation of UNSC 1540 through Government-industry partnership in 2012.
• India has legally backed export control system to implement UNSC 1540 for its commitment towards non-proliferation.