CP/RES. 1026 (1958/14)

PLACE AND DATE OF THE FIFTEENTH REGULAR MEETING OF THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE OF THE INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION
AGAINST THE ILLICIT MANUFACTURING OF AND TRAFFICKING IN FIRARMS, AMMUNITION, EXPLOSIVES, AND OTHER RELATED MATERIALS (CIFTA), AND OF THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE OAS GROUP OF EXPERTS TO PREPARE MODEL LEGISLATION IN THE AREAS TO WHICH THE CIFTA REFERS, BOTH MEETINGS CONVENED UNDER RESOLUTION AG/RES. 2809 (XLIII-O/13)

(Adopted by the Permanent Council at its regular meeting held on March 10, 2014)

THE PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES,

UNDERSCORING the importance of the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and other related Materials (CIFTA) to further improvement of public security in the Americas;

BEARING IN MIND the importance of continuing to modernize domestic firearms legislation, within the framework of the CIFTA; and

CONSIDERING that the General Assembly, through resolution AG/RES. 2809 (XLIII-O/13), adopted at its forty-third regular session, resolved to convene the seventh meeting of the OAS Group of Experts to Prepare Model Legislation in the Areas to Which the CIFTA Refers, and the fifteenth meeting of the Consultative Committee of the CIFTA, in accordance with Article XXI of that Convention,

RESOLVES:

1. To set May 5, 2014 as the date of the seventh meeting of the OAS Group of Experts to Prepare Model Legislation in the Areas to Which the CIFTA Refers, and May 6, 2014 as the date of fifteenth meeting of the Consultative Committee of the CIFTA, both meetings to take place at the headquarters of the OAS General Secretariat.

2. To request the General Secretariat to render such technical and administrative support as may be necessary to prepare for said meeting and to make appropriate arrangements for it to be held, subject to the availability of resources allocated in the program-budget of the Organization and other resources for 2014.