Confidence and security-building measures

Defense policy and doctrine papers (White Papers)

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DOCUMENTS

Request from Antigua and Barbuda for a security study from the appropriate Inter-American institution on pre-planning for national defense in the context of the transportation of Nuclear waste through the Caribbean sea CP/CSH-434/02

Aide-memoire to committee members from the chair transmitting the results of the informal meeting held to consider the request of the CARICOM member states for preparation of a security study on pre-planning for national defense in the context of the transportation of nuclear waste throughout the Caribbean sea CP/CSH-443/02

Guidelines on White Papers (Presented by the Delegation of Canada) CP/CSH-492/02

Draft guidelines on developing national defense policy and doctrine papers ("White Papers") CP/CSH-496/02 corr. 1

Report of the Chair of the Committee on Hemispheric Security regarding the guidelines on developing national defense policy and doctrine papers CP/CSH-504/02 corr. 1

WHITE PAPERS

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• Argentina – Argentine Republic White Paper - 1999 English / Spanish
  Defense Review - 2000 Spanish only
   

• Brazil - National Defense Policy - 1996 English / Portuguese / Spanish (Spanish translated by the OAS translation department)
   

• Canada – Defence Policy White Paper - 1994 -  English  /  French  /  Spanish (Spanish translated by the OAS translation department) - (original documents of the Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces)
   

• Chile – Chile’s National Defense Paper - 2002 Spanish  /  English
   

• El Salvador – The Salvadoran Nation: Its Defense, Security, and Development - 1998 Spanish only
   

• Guatemala – National Defense Paper of the Republic of Guatemala - 2003 Spanish only
   

• Peru – Peru’s National Defense White Paper  (A contribution to confidence- and security-building measures, democracy, and peace in the Hemisphere) – 2005  Spanish only
   

• United States – Annual Defense Reports - 1995-2004
   

• Uruguay – Elements of a National Defense Policy - 1998  Spanish only

DOCUMENTS RELATED TO WHITE PAPERS

• Seminar On White Papers: April 22, 2002 CP/CSH-447/02