a) military weapons,

The Military Division also believes that UNMOs should not be armed.

A disarmament matter of high priority for us is the issue of small arms and light weapons.

The result has been a significant reduction in the stockpiles of weapons of the major military Powers.

Biological, chemical and nuclear weapons are covered by the Military Equipment Act (SFS 1992 1300) and the Military Equipment Ordinance (SFS 1992 1303) as military equipment.

We have renounced nuclear, biological, chemical and certain conventional weapons, our military expenditure ratio of GNP is among the lowest in the world.

It also prohibits engaging in military preparations or preparations of a military nature, intending to use a chemical weapon.

increasing assertion of the role of nuclear weapons in military doctrines

Often they are armed with military weapons, and have participated under army command in joint operations with the army.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) reported that its soldiers had believed the youths were armed and were engaged in weapon smuggling.

Nuclear disarmament can trigger progress in other weapon systems, be they conventional, chemical, biological or bacteriological weapons.

Improved organization, training, and equipment of paramilitary, SWAT, and military teams.

The Department for Disarmament Affairs has sought assistance from Member States for the creation of the small arms advisory service however, no such assistance has yet been received.

The challenges that had to be met in order to keep people safe from gun violence included the issue of the civilian possession of arms, especially those designed for military use State responsibility for arms transfers and other priorities such as the misuse of small arms by agents of the State, including the army, the police and paramilitary forces.

We welcome the establishment of a small arms advisory service within the Department of Disarmament Affairs.

Weapons and military technology and bought in components for their manufacture

It is clear that nuclear weapons will remain for the foreseeable future an important feature of the military posture of nuclear weapon States.

We welcome his proposal to reconstitute the Centre for Disarmament Affairs as the Department for Disarmament and Arms Regulation.

The latest figures show that a total of 34,284 military personnel have handed over their weapons.

The starting point for changing the perception that nuclear weapons equalled security and political power was to address the central role of nuclear weapons in the military doctrines of nuclear weapon States.

Military equipment in the form of night vision devices was also part of a shipment of arms to a warlord located in Mogadishu.

Military projections by the US have repeatedly suggested that Azerbaijan would lose such a battle, even with newly purchased equipment and Turkish military support. Armenian forces are well dug in and have received a significant boost from Russia s diversion of heavy weaponry to Armenia from some recently closed Georgian military bases.

Both neighbouring countries provided the armed forces of Guinea Bissau with non lethal military assistance.

The Netherlands continues to be active on almost all non nuclear arms control and disarmament issues, including biological weapons, chemical weapons, missiles, landmines, explosive remnants of war and small arms and light weapons.

The National Military Forces of the Republic of Poland do not possess at their disposal either the stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons or nuclear weapons.

With regard to disarmament, we must reaffirm the necessity of working towards the elimination of weapons of mass destruction, whether nuclear, chemical or biological.

Bilateral nuclear arms negotiations and nuclear disarmament

9. With the foregoing perspective, the Philippines adheres to peaceful, non military approaches to conflict and renounces the use of nuclear and chemical weapons, fuel air bombs, napalm, cluster bombs and biological weaponry containing depleted uranium.

Nuclear weapons are becoming a permanent feature of some military doctrines, and there has been a dramatic 20 per cent increase in global military spending in the past two years.

Prevention of the use of cybernetic military weapons or knowledge by terrorist groups

(b) Encompass other conventional arms control limitation and disarmament measures, such as, inter alia, arms control and confidence building measures, including transparency in armaments, the combating of the illicit arms trade (in particular, in small arms and light weapons).

My delegation also welcomes the improvement in participation in the Register of Conventional Arms and in the Standardized Instrument for Reporting Military Expenditures, as well as in the national reports on small arms and light weapons.

Nuclear weapon free zones reinforce nuclear non proliferation and contribute to achieving the objective of nuclear disarmament.

4. Strict military control is generally exercised over the use of such weapons by the armed forces, but such control is minimal among armed opposition organizations and paramilitary groups.

2. The Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force is not in possession of any weapons of aerial delivery or nuclear, chemical or biological weaponry, nor does it intend to acquire weapons of mass destruction in the future.

A number of hand grenades, a case of ammunition and a gun were reportedly recovered.

For decades, important treaties and conventions, such as the NPT, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons have constituted the international legal framework of multilateral arms control, disarmament and non proliferation.

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1. Weapons of Mass Destruction Nuclear Disarmament

Guidelines for Conventional Arms Transfers

The weapons were militarily obsolete and no longer relevant to trans Atlantic relations.

By creating an illusion of military supremacy, they could provoke their own use, which in turn might lead to the actual use of nuclear weapons.

The report is divided into nine chapters, including the overall policy adjustment, military strength, defense budget, military deployment, weapons and equipment, military system reform, military training, foreign military security cooperation and military security relations with China and so on.

BW, CW and NW as such are controlled by the Military Equipment Act (SFS 1992 1300) and the Military Equipment Ordinance (SFS 1992 1303) as military equipment (see OP 2).

(i) In paragraph (a), replace the text after disarmament issues with the following and on matters related to weapons of mass destruction, in particular nuclear weapons, by Member States,