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The Steering Committee of the South East Europe Regional Approach to Stockpile Reduction (RASR) met on 17 January 2012 in Belgrade, Serbia.  Chaired by the SEESAC’s Team Leader a.i. Dr. Ivan Zverzhanovski, the meeting was attended by RASR Steering Committee members Gregor Sancanin and Blaz Mihelic of the International Trust Fund (ITF), Scott Willason of NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA), Eric Berman from the Small Arms Survey (SAS) and John Hesford representing the US Embassy in Belgrade.

The Steering Committee discussed the agenda of the forthcoming RASR workshop, which has tentatively been set to take place in April of 2012, and provided an update of their work regarding infrastructure building, sharing information/best practices, standardization, national and regional policies, RASR website and its outreach policies.

About RASR

RASR encourages affected governments to develop a pro-active, coordinated, regional approach to secure and destroy SALWs, by building local capacity, sharing best practices and lessons learned, and pooling resources in order to maximize their efficiency. The ultimate aim of the RASR initiative is to prevent disastrous explosions or destabilizing diversions of conventional weapons and munitions.