Contents Major armed conflicts Armed conflict prevention, management and resolution Russia: separatism and conflicts in the North Caucasus Europe: the new transatlantic agenda Military expenditure Arms production Transfers of major conventional weapons Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control Conventional arms control Responses to proliferation: the North Korean ballistic missile programme Annexes: Arms control and disarmament agreements Chronology 1999

Annexes* * Chapter summary from the SIPRI Yearbook 2000: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). Annexe A, by Ragnhild Ferm, summarizes the major arms control and disarmament agreements and lists the states parties as of 1 January 2000. Annexe B, by Ragnhild Ferm and Christer Berggren, is a chronology of the major arms control and security-related events of 1999.

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