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

BAM Bakaraaha Arms Market

The flow of weapons from Ethiopia to warlords and then to BAM helps to explain another source of small arms and ammunition available at BAM.

The shipments ranged in size from an individual weapon such as a large and expensive anti aircraft gun to ocean freight containers full of arms, ranging from explosives and ammunition to small arms, mines and anti tank weapons.

A. Bakaraaha Arms Market, arms trading networks and the opposition

Describe the types of weapons and ammunition available through the arms market and the cost of each.

(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).

Identify in detail the principal buyers of weapons and ammunition from the arms market.

The shipments ranged in size from an individual weapon, such as a large and expensive anti aircraft gun, to ocean freight containers full of arms, ranging from explosives and ammunition to small arms, mines and anti tank weapons.

We encourage weapons exporting countries to be as responsible as possible in their transactions and to prevent the flow of arms and munitions to areas of instability.

VI. USE OF FORCE AND FIREARMS

A number of individuals used the medium of the Bakaaraha arms market either to sell or to buy arms that were brought into Somalia in violation of the arms embargo.

(b) Weapons of war pistols, rifles and carbines with automatic firing action as well as those classified as light and heavy, mines, grenades and military explosives

We are concerned about the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, and we support the preparation of an international arms trade treaty.

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Such steps would include export control, arms and arms brokers licensing systems and measures to criminalize arms embargo violations.

It has also been reported to the Monitoring Group that the warlords have on occasion also sold or bartered the Ethiopian supplied weapons at BAM in exchange for more powerful armaments, such as anti aircraft guns.

The group's activities in terms of smuggling and operations are historically well established. They have been supplying the Bakaaraha arms market at Irtogte in Mogadishu for a number of years during the arms embargo.

a) military weapons,

The Firearms Act prohibits the illicit acquisition of arms and ammunition.

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.

Thus, it is important to effectively address various issues, in particular disarmament and the non proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, as well as the problem of the proliferation of illegal small arms and light weapons, which affects numerous countries.

There are more small arms and light weapons in circulation and there is a virtual absence of the State in the occupied area.

They also cover the activities of suspicious commercial companies and individuals involved in illegal trading in arms and weapon components.

Bilateral nuclear arms negotiations and nuclear disarmament

prohibit the person to possess fire or other arms and impound the weapon

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.

Their objective was to stop the proliferation of small arms in the illicit international arms trade.

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

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

Proliferation of small arms and light weapons and mercenary activities threats to peace and security in West Africa.

Reductions in nuclear arsenals, in particular under the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions, should be irreversible, and the two nuclear weapon States concerned should seek to reduce non strategic nuclear weapons in accordance with the presidential nuclear initiatives of 1991 and 1992.

The supply, sale and brokering of technical advice and training or assistance related to the supply, production, maintenance and use of the items referred to in paragraph 1 are prohibited.

We must use our remaining resources to crush the enemy.

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.

Arms and weapons are usually transported along the main road from Boosaaso in the north, through Gaalkacyo to Mogadishu.

He also agreed that the proliferation of arms in Burundi had served to fuel the civil strife and that there was a need to stem the flow of arms to that country by means of an international arms embargo against the warring parties.

The Conference on Disarmament is facing new tasks and challenges, in both nuclear and conventional disarmament.

The priority areas identified for implementing this project are harmonizing legislation to control small arms and light weapons enhancing national capability to control firearms supporting the collection of weapons and ensuring the destruction of weapons all in order to prevent or reduce the abuse of small arms and light weapons and contribute to a culture of peace.

Guns, open fire as soon as you're ready.

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

(c) Develop legally binding international instruments to regulate the marking, tracing and illicit brokering of small arms and light weapons and ensure the effective monitoring and enforcement of United Nations arms embargoes

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.

6. The costs of disarmament and arms reductions

Under the Regulation on Import and Export of Firearms, Ammunition, Explosive Articles and Fireworks and Imitation of Firearms of the Customs Department, it is necessary to lodge, register or check the Goods Declaration and supporting documentation concerning firearms prior to their import, export and transit.