Publications
Liquid Rocket Fuel in the OSCE Area: Overview of Disposal Aspects
Publishing date: 23 October 2008
Content type: Book
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
What we do: Arms control
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This publication describes the humanitarian and environmental risks posed by melange and samin, notes the appropriate storage and handling aspects and highlights various elimination methodologies. This Overview consolidates the most suitable practices of liquid rocket fuel components' elimination experienced in the last 15 years to provide the OSCE participating States with information and analyses for developing policies and for designing general guidelines and procedures for the elimination of their unusable or surplus liquid rocket fuel components- mainly melange and samin- and to encourage concerned participating States to apply for OSCE international financial and/or technical support for the elimination of their rocket fuel components.
Handbook of Best Practices on Small Arms and Light Weapons
Publishing date: 1 December 2003
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
What we do: Arms control
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Handbook of Best Practices on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) is a set of guidelines developed by the Forum for Security and Co-operation to help cut down the amount of illegally-held weaponry in circulation. The Handbook is one of the most comprehensive manuals to-date on SALW that provides a set of best practice guides relating to all stages of a gun's life, starting with manufacture and finishing with destruction and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration.