Examples of weapons in each category of arms

They are categorized as conventional weapons, in contrast to weapons of mass destruction that can wipe out whole cities at a time.

(h) The undertaking by the nuclear weapon States that possess these weapons not to increase the number or types of weapons deployed and not to develop new types of these weapons or rationalizations for their use

Weapons of mass destruction, be they nuclear, chemical or biological, have brought no benefit to humanity.

That region remains an area of illegal production of different types of light weapons and trafficking in small arms.

She called on all countries in possession of non strategic nuclear weapons to negotiate further reductions with a view to their total elimination.

Two entire classes of weapons that cause destruction on a massive and indiscriminate scale chemical weapons and biological weapons have been banned.

Category 3 Hunting weapons and their ammunition.

The table gives examples of each category.

This was the first time that such weapons had been used.

At the same, time concerted action is needed to end illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons, which kill 500,000 people every year.

Identification and classification of information weapons and means that can be used as information weapons

Today these issues are the question of nuclear weapons on the one hand and conventional weapons on the other.

Such a State would also be under an affirmative duty to remove all hazardous weapons and residue, to repair all damage done by such weaponry and to minimize, to the extent possible, all negative effects of these prohibited weapons.

8. Stresses the need for an undertaking by the nuclear weapon States that possess such weapons not to increase the number or types of weapons deployed and not to develop new types of these weapons or rationalizations for their use

Furthermore, it neither has chemical weapons manufacturing facilities nor does it possess such weapons.

It was also concerned at the continued development of new, more sophisticated and precise types of nuclear weapons, which increased the likelihood that such weapons would be used.

We believe that the only way to guarantee that terrorists will never gain possession of weapons of mass destruction is to ensure that such weapons do not exist in the first place.

Over the past decade, his Government had welcomed the increasing establishment of nuclear weapon free zones, which had diminished the importance of such weapons and limited the geographical scope of their menace through accession to the Protocols by nuclear weapon States.

The existence of weapons of mass destruction, beginning with nuclear weapons, is the greatest threat facing humankind.

(a) The State of Guatemala has no weapons of mass destruction in its arsenal, nor does it have materials and technology for their use and manufacture

3. The Ministry also supports the recommendation that any nation in possession of weapons of aerial delivery or nuclear, chemical or biological weaponry should be encouraged to dispose of them in the interest of all humanity as they constitute a serious danger to our planet.

It seeks neither to possess nor to acquire such weapons, nor does it intend to develop programmes or establish facilities relating to this type of weapon.

Cluster weapons of the ground to ground type are intended to be used by the French armed forces only in a conflict against enemy armed forces that possess arms which are of the same type or are capable of directly endangering the security of our forces present in the field.

Illegal arms trafficking and poor monitoring of the legal trade make it easy for children to gain access to such weapons.

This Convention will prohibit an entire category of weapons of mass destruction and provide for the destruction of these weapons.

More than 80 per cent of these weapons were actually eliminated.

Jordan, a country free from weapons of mass destruction, neither exports, nor produces nor possesses such weapons, and its defence policy is centred on preventive measures against such weapons.

Small arms, light weapons and landmines were identified as the primary weapons in most civil wars in the 1990s, and those arms are still one of the main causes of human suffering throughout the world.

Pending the elimination of all nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, non nuclear weapon States are entitled to effective security guarantees against the threat or use of such weapons.

The licenses contain necessary information such as importers' name, type of firearms, size of firearms and quantity.

Mindful of the impact of surplus small arms and light weapons on the illicit trade in these weapons, and welcoming the practical measures taken by States to destroy surplus weapons and confiscated or collected weapons, in accordance with the recommendations of the Secretary General in his report on small arms,A 54 258.

Our hope is that the CD will use this working paper as a basis to negotiate and conclude a new legal instrument on outer space establishing the following main obligations not to place in orbit around the earth any object carrying any kinds of weapon not to deploy such weapons on celestial bodies nor station such weapons in outer space in any other manner and not to resort to the threat or use of force against outer space objects.

In essence, the Treaty requires those that do not possess nuclear weapons not to acquire such weapons, while also requiring those that do possess them to disarm.

Such weapons may not have the same destructive powers as nuclear, chemical or biological weapons but they can and do extract an appalling toll around the world and their proliferation can be, and is, destabilizing.

190 2003 Coll. on Firearms and Ammunition gives a detailed classification of the categories of firearms (A, B, C, D) and provides in its Section 4 that category A weapons are prohibited weapons, prohibited ammunition and prohibited weapon complements, further specifying in paragraph 2) that prohibited weapons are

He recalled that the Human Security Network, of which Switzerland was a member, emphasized the impact on human security of the uncontrolled dissemination of small arms and light weapons.

6. Considering the destructive potential of such weapons, their prohibition and total elimination must also constitute one of the priority objectives of the international community.

The excessive accumulation and easy availability of small arms and light weapons hinders peacebuilding and threatens human security.

It neither aspires to acquiring those different types of weapons nor to developing programmes to produce them.

9. Calls for the prohibition of those types of non strategic nuclear weapons that have already been removed from the arsenals of some nuclear weapon States and the development of transparency mechanisms for the verification of the elimination of these weapons

Several speakers pointed to the devastating human consequences of the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons, which are in many places the real weapons of mass destruction .

Worse still, such weapons continue to be developed.

The use of these weapons could constitute an act of genocide.

With regard to confiscated and or impounded weapons, the Ministry of Defence does not issue a new marking for such types of weapons, but merely registers them with their original marking otherwise, the characteristics of the weapon are described in the federal registry of firearms covering only those weapons made available to the Ministry by the competent judicial authority.