Illicit Traffic in Small Arms and Light Weapons

A/RES/55/33[Q]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 73s Illicit traffic in small arms, published in 2001.

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Advisory Services Consultations Data Collection Financial Assistance Illicit Arms Trafficking Information Dissemination Information Exchange Small Arms Weapons Destruction Weapons Surrender

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

A/RES/55/33 [Q]

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Requests the Secretary-General to continue his broad-based consultations, within available financial resources and with any other assistance provided by States in a position to do so, and to provide the 2001 United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects with information on the magnitude and scope of illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons, measures to combat illicit trafficking in and circulation of small arms and light weapons, and the role of the United Nations in collecting, collating, sharing and disseminating information on illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons;

Encourages States to promote regional and subregional initiatives and requests the Secretary-General, within available financial resources, and those States in a position to do so, to assist States in undertaking such initiatives to address the illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons in affected regions, and invites the Secretary-General to utilize these initiatives as part of his consultations;

Encourages also States in a position to do so to take appropriate national measures to destroy surplus, confiscated or collected small arms and light weapons, and to provide, on a voluntary basis, information to the Secretary-General on the types and quantities of arms destroyed as well as the methods of their destruction, and requests the Secretary-General to circulate this information annually to all States;

Invites States in a position to do so to continue to provide assistance, bilaterally, regionally and through multilateral channels, such as the United Nations, in support of measures associated with combating illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons, including assistance, in response to requests by States, in collecting and destroying surplus, confiscated or collected small arms and light weapons;

Invites the Secretary-General to provide advisory and financial assistance, within available financial resources and with any other assistance provided by States in a position to do so, in response to requests by States, in support of measures associated with combating illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons, including assistance in collecting and destroying surplus, confiscated or collected small arms and light weapons;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session an item entitled “Illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons”.

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