OEA/Ser.P
AG/RES. 1796 (XXXI-O/01)
5 June 2001
Original: English
SUPPORT FOR THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON THE ILLICIT
TRADE IN SMALL ARMS AND LIGHT WEAPONS IN ALL ITS ASPECTS
(Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on
June 5, 2001;
subject to review by the Style Committee)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN the Annual Report of the Permanent Council
(AG/doc.3970/01) and, in particular, the section referring to
the Report of the Chair of the Committee on Hemispheric Security
as it relates to small arms and light weapons and to the holding
of the special meeting of the Committee on January 22, 2001;
REITERATING the primacy of its support for the Inter-American
Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking
in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Materials
(CIFTA) as the principal vehicle in the Hemisphere and the model
for the international community for combating the illicit
manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, including small
arms and light weapons;
NOTING WITH SATISFACTION the contribution of the Brasilia
Declaration which resulted from the Regional Preparatory Meeting
of the Latin American and Caribbean States for the 2001 United
Nations (UN) Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and
Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, held in Brasilia on November
22-24, 2000;
NOTING FURTHER the contribution of the Seminar on the OAS and
the 2001 UN Conference: Tackling the Illicit Trade in Small Arms
and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, held in Ottawa, Canada on
May 23-24, 2001;
WELCOMING the convening of the UN Conference on the Illicit
Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, in New
York on July 9-20, 2001;
RECOGNIZING the valuable contribution of hemispheric support
to efforts at the international level to address this issue
underway at the UN in preparation for the 2001 Conference on
Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its
Aspects; and
RECOGNIZING ALSO the decision, taken during the Second
Regular Meeting of the Consultative Committee established in the
framework of the above-mentioned Inter-American Convention (May
17 and 18, 2001), to follow the progress of the work for the
said UN Conference through the Secretariat pro tempore,
RESOLVES:
1. To request the Permanent Council to continue following,
through its Committee on Hemispheric Security, developments in
the work being carried out by the United Nations (UN) in
relation to the Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms
and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects to be held in New York,
from July 9-20, 2001.
2. To encourage member states to participate actively in the
said United Nations Conference.
3. To urge member states to consider implementing, as soon as
possible and as appropriate, national and regional elements of
the 2001 Program of Action which will result from the said UN
Conference.
4. To request that the Permanent Council hold, at the level
of the Committee on Hemispheric Security, an annual meeting on
small arms and light weapons, which would include in its agenda
a review regarding the status of implementation of national and
regional elements of the said 2001 Program of Action.
5. To request the Secretary General to transmit this
resolution to the UN Secretary-General and to the President of
the said UN Conference.
6. To request the Permanent Council to report on the
implementation of this resolution to the General Assembly at its
thirty-second regular session.
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