61 89. Towards an arms trade treaty establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms

This figure is used in several publications see Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, Up in Arms Controlling the International Trade in Small Arms (July 2001), p. 2.

In the longer term, we are also working with partner Governments in support of an international arms trade treaty.

Mexico participates in all regional and international efforts to eliminate the illicit trade in and manufacture of small arms and light weapons.

Arms trafficking must be internationally controlled and sanctioned and illicit trade in arms must be criminalized.

4. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty second session an item entitled Towards an arms trade treaty establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms .

Moreover, my country is considering new initiatives in which the international community could participate to combat the illicit trade in small arms more effectively.

We welcome the growing support, in all parts of the world, for an international treaty to establish common standards for the global trade in conventional arms.

We have therefore been working actively in all regional and international forums with a view to curbing the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons.

Through this bill, the Government is seeking to limit domestic arms trade and prevent the transfer of arms to third States.

While welcoming moves towards legally binding agreements in the areas of brokering, marking and tracing, speakers called on the international community to support the call for an arms trade treaty to clearly control all arms transfers in accordance with agreed standards of human rights and international humanitarian law.

Ukraine shares the view that efforts to combat the illicit trade in, and proliferation of, small arms and light weapons are greatly hampered by inadequate national, regional and international capacity to trace the sources and supply lines of illicit arms.

The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects

China fully supports the efforts being made against the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons and has played an active part in the relevant international efforts.

What we need is a legally binding international instrument that will regulate, control and monitor the illicit trade in small arms, including their transfer to non State actors.

International Trade Forum Issue 2 2003, International Trade Centre UNCTAD WTO (ITC).

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Priority three International trade and trade facilitation

Taking advantage of the traditional coastal trade between the waters of the western Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, arms embargo violators have now combined this trade with arms shipment and, in some cases, outright arms trafficking by sea.

Of the 34 arms shipments identified by the Monitoring Group, 21 transactions were conducted through the Bakaaraha arms market, which reaffirms the central role it plays in the arms trade and in arms embargo violations in Somalia.

Furthermore, we encourage the Council to consider increased cooperation with the International Criminal Police Organization in order to improve identification of diversion points in the trade of small arms.

Convinced of the importance of national, regional and international measures to combat trafficking and illicit trade in small arms, including those measures that could be adapted to regional approaches,

In that regard, the Kingdom of Swaziland supports United Nations efforts to enhance international cooperation to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons.

(t) The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects

(t) The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects

(t) The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects

The establishment of an international instrument on the identification and tracing of small arms and light weapons would also help the Council in its efforts to enforce arms embargoes and to control the illicit trade in order to ensure the protection of civilians.

6. Calls upon the international community to provide technical and financial support to strengthen the capacity of civil organizations to take action to combat the illicit trade in small arms

What is still needed, however, is a legally binding international instrument that will regulate, control and monitor the illicit trade in small arms, including their transfer to non State actors.

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The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons has contributed to their unlimited proliferation.

59 86. The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects

60 81. The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects

57 72. The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects

58 241. The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects

61 66. The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects

62 47. The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects

Furthermore, the problem is linked to the illegal trade in small arms and light weapons.

13. Appeals to the Central American Governments to continue their efforts to combat the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, promote arms limitation and control and combat transnational organized crime and terrorism by fulfilling the obligations assumed in the relevant international agreements

While recognizing the vital importance of international cooperation, we believe that States bear the primary responsibility to solve the problems associated with the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons.

8. Calls upon the international community to provide technical and financial support to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations to take action to combat the illicit trade in small arms

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