The Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 73nIllicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects, published in 2004.

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16 topics

Conference and Meeting Services Conferences Consultations Disarmament Negotiations Experts Financial Resources Illicit Arms Trafficking Information Exchange International Instruments National Security Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Report Preparation Resources Mobilization Small Arms Working Groups

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Decides to convene a United Nations conference to review progress made in the implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its AspectsError: Reference source not found in New York for a period of two weeks between June and July 2006;

Also decides that a session of the preparatory committee for the conference is to be held in New York for a period of two weeks in January 2006, and that, if necessary, a subsequent session may be held;

Further decides to convene in 2005 the second biennial meeting of States as stipulated in the Programme of Action to consider the national, regional and global implementation of the Programme of Action;

Determines that it is feasible to develop an international instrument to enable States to identify and trace, in a timely and reliable manner, illicit small arms and light weapons;

Notes that the character of the international instrument will be determined in the course of negotiations;

Also notes that the international instrument should be complementary to, and not inconsistent with, the existing commitments of States under relevant international instruments;

Further notes that the international instrument should take into account the national security and legal interests of States;

Decides to establish an open-ended working group, to meet in three sessions of two weeks each, to negotiate an international instrument to enable States to identify and trace, in a timely and reliable manner, illicit small arms and light weapons;

Also decides that the open-ended working group shall hold an organizational session in New York on 3 and 4 February 2004 in order to set the dates for its substantive sessions;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the open-ended working group with the assistance and services that may be required for the discharge of its tasks;

Also requests the Secretary-General to hold broad-based consultations, within available financial resources and with any other assistance provided by Member States in a position to do so, with all Member States, interested regional and subregional organizations, international agencies and experts in the field, on further steps to enhance international cooperation in preventing, combating and eradicating illicit brokering in small arms and light weapons, taking into consideration the views of States provided to the Secretary-General, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session on the outcome of his consultations;

Continues to encourage all initiatives to mobilize resources and expertise to promote the implementation of the Programme of Action and to provide assistance to States in its implementation;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to collate and circulate data and information provided by States on a voluntary basis, including national reports, on the implementation by those States of the Programme of Action, and encourages Member States to submit such reports;

Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-ninth session the item entitled “The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects”.

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