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Security Observatories and through enhanced support for a multilateral
evaluation mechanism and security sector assessments.
Strengthening CARICOM Cooperation to Reduce Gun Crime, a
three-year project, was launched in February through a partnership involving
Project Ploughshares, CARICOM IMPACS and the Institute of International
Relations at the University of West Indies. The project, which was undertaken
with the financial support of the Government of Canada through the
Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program of the Department of Foreign Affairs
and International Trade, sought to improve national capacity to report on the
implementation of existing agreements and build capacities in the fight against
the proliferation of SALW.
CARICOM also supported negotiation efforts, including the holding of
preparatory committee workshops aimed at securing an arms trade treaty.
Organization of American States
As part of efforts to strengthen cooperation with other organizations,
the Technical Secretariat of the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit
Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunitions, Explosives,
and Other Related Materials (CIFTA) 31 participated in various regional,
subregional, and international seminars including: the Open-ended Meeting
of Governmental Experts on the implementation of the United Nations
Programme of Action on the illicit trade in SALW and the International
Tracing Instrument; the seminar Combating Firearms Trafficking in the
Caribbean: Stockpile Management and Destruction, which was organized
jointly by the United States Department of State, the Defense Threat
Reduction Agency and the United States Southern Command; and the working
meeting of the Advisory Group of the Stolen and Lost Firearms System of the
International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL).
The CIFTA Technical Secretariat, with the cooperation of experts
provided by the Government of Mexico, worked during this period on
preparing the three pending model legislation proposals that complement
the Convention: (a) Draft Model Legislation and Comments on Controlled
Delivery; (b) Draft Model Legislation and Comments on Recordkeeping,
Confidentiality, and Exchange of Information; and (c) Draft Model Legislation
and Comments on Security Measures to Eliminate Loss or Diversion.
Under the United States–funded project Stockpile Management and
Destruction in Central America, the Technical Secretariat, together with the
United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in
Latin America and the Caribbean, conducted a number of legislative studies
31 The treaty text and status of adherence are available from http://disarmament.un.org/
treaties.