The Ukrainian translation of SIPRI Yearbook 2012 was launched at a press conference in Kyiv on 20 March.
On 18–19 March the foreign ministers of Iceland and Sweden delivered keynote addresses at a high-level seminar on Arctic issues co-organized by SIPRI and the Institute for International Affairs' Centre for Arctic Policy Studies at the University of Iceland (IIA/CAPS).
On 19 March SIPRI Senior Researcher Hugh Griffiths, Head of the Countering Illicit Trafficking-Mechanism Assessment Projects (CIT-MAP), spoke at a public hearing at the European Parliament organized by the Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Security and De
China has become the fifth largest exporter of major conventional arms worldwide, according to new data on international arms transfers published today by SIPRI.