AG/RES. 1543 (XXVIII-O/98)

ADOPTION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN DRUG ABUSE CONTROL COMMISSION'S MODEL REGULATIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT OF FIREARMS, THEIR PARTS AND COMPONENTS, AND AMMUNITION

(Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on June 2, 1998)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the recommendations and observations of the Permanent Council on the annual reports submitted in compliance with Article 91.f of the Charter of the Organization of American States (AG/doc.3698/98) and, in particular, those relating to the Annual Report of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) (CP/doc.3008/98);

RECALLING General Assembly resolutions AG/RES. 1045 (XX-O/90), AG/RES. 1115 (XXI-O/91), and AG/RES. 1197 (XXII-O/92), instructing CICAD to perform studies, hold seminars, and establish a group of experts to address, through model regulations, the control of illicit transnational movements of firearms and explosives and their linkages to drug trafficking;

RECOGNIZING the importance given to the efforts of CICAD to develop the said Model Regulations, as reiterated in General Assembly resolution AG/RES. 1445 (XXVII-O/97);

NOTING that the said Model Regulations were developed as instructed, and that they were approved at the twenty-second regular session of CICAD, held in 1997 in Lima, Peru; and

NOTING FURTHER that since the Model Regulations were approved by CICAD, the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials, was adopted under General Assembly resolution AG/RES. 1 (XXIV-E/97) of the twenty-fourth special session thereof, held in Washington, D.C., on November 13, 1997,

RESOLVES:

1. To adopt the Model Regulations for the Control of the International Movement of Firearms, Their Parts and Components, and Ammunition, as adopted at the twenty-second regular session of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), held in 1997 in Lima, Peru.

2. To encourage member states to apply the Model Regulations as they deem appropriate.

3. To commend the CICAD Group of Experts for the progress it made in drafting the Model Regulations.

4. To request that the Group of Experts hold future meetings for the purpose of further improving these Model Regulations.