The Wassenaar Arrangement conducts a variety of outreach activities aimed at encouraging broad adoption of WA standards and promoting effective national export control systems.
The Wassenaar Arrangement organises two regular collective outreach events in Vienna for interested outreach partners (currently 45 countries):
Periodically the Wassenaar Arrangement organises outreach seminars and workshops or other events.
The Wassenaar Arrangement also conducts outreach dialogue with individual countries and from time to time may undertake bilateral outreach visits upon invitation from an interested country, as agreed by the Wassenaar Arrangement Plenary.
The WA Secretariat interacts on a regular basis with a variety of international and regional organisations engaged in related activities. In addition, the Arrangement has contacts with other export control regimes on specific control list issues of a technical nature.
Other activities to raise awareness of the Wassenaar Arrangement’s work include seminars, workshops and participation in international conferences in various parts of the world which often include representatives from industry and academia, as well as governments. A number of Wassenaar Arrangement Participating States also undertake export controls-related outreach on a national or regional basis, including by organising events aimed at engagement with countries in specific regions.
If a country would like to participate in Wassenaar Arrangement outreach activities, it should officially register its interest through the current Plenary Chair or the WA Secretariat.
On 24 June, WA Head of Secretariat Ambassador Dr. György Molnár and Counsellor Lee Yoonseok, representing Republic of Korea in its capacity as the 2026 Plenary Chair, discussed the work of the Wassenaar Arrangement with the 2026 United Nations Disarmament Fellows. Counsellor Lee underlined the role of the WA in maintaining effective multilateral export controls, while Ambassador Molnár and officers of the WA Secretariat explained key aspects of the WA’s work including keeping the Munitions List and Dual-Use List up to date as well as continuing to develop and share best practices in the implementation of export controls. Fellows from 24 countries, including four WA Participating States and several WA outreach partner countries, took part in the programme which was organised by the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs.
Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) Head of Secretariat Ambassador Dr. György Molnár addressed the Asian Export Control Seminar (AECS) in Tokyo, Japan, on 5 February 2026. His presentation provided an opportunity to promote the establishment of fully effective export controls throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
The Head of Secretariat provided an overview of the WA’s work, focusing on the implementation of WA standards and best practices while underlining the noteworthy updates to the WA Control Lists which were agreed in 2025.
The AECS is organised annually by the Center for Information on Security Trade Control, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
Representatives of 31 outreach partner countries and Participating States took part in an Enhanced Technical Briefing hosted by the Wassenaar Arrangement on 16 June in Vienna. Participating countries included exporters, importers and producers of conventional weapons and dual-use goods and technologies.
Ambassador Kaifu Atsushi (Japan), 2025 Plenary Chair, underlined the value of multilateral cooperation in maintaining fully effective export controls and encouraged governments to take into account accelerating advances in technology and developments in international security as they update their lists of controlled goods and technologies.
Head of Secretariat Ambassador Dr. György Molnár provided an overview of the WA’s work and noted the value of the WA Control Lists as a reference for national systems. He reaffirmed the principles on which the WA was founded, including that it is not directed at any country or group of countries, and that it does not impede bona fide civil transactions.
Experts Group Chair Anneth de Witte (Netherlands), Licensing and Enforcement Officers Meeting Chair Christian Larose (Canada) and experts from France, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States delivered briefings on significant changes to the WA Munitions List and List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies adopted over the last two years as well as the implementation of WA standards and best practices. Several outreach partners provided updates regarding their national export control systems.
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