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Disarmament resolutions and decisions listed by chapter
• Lebanon stated that it supported the humane principles of the Mine Ban
Convention and the alleviation of human suffering caused by anti-personnel
mines. Lebanon was not yet a party to the Mine Ban Convention for legitimate
reasons related to its national security. Innocent civilians in southern Lebanon
continued to be victims of the random and arbitrary use of anti-personnel mines.
• The Republic of Korea reiterated its support for the spirit and objectives of
the Mine Ban Convention and of the draft resolution. However, owing to the
security concerns on the Korean peninsula, it had to give priority to its own
security and was unable to accede to the Convention. Nevertheless, it was
committed to mitigating the suffering caused by anti-personnel landmines
through exercising tighter control and enforcing an indefinite extension of the
moratorium on their export, joining the CCW and its Amended Protocol II and
Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War, and making financial contributions
to mine clearance and victim assistance through the relevant United Nations
mine action programmes.
66/34. Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small
arms and light weapons and collecting them
By this annual resolution, the General
Assembly again encouraged the international
community to support the Economic Community
of West African States Convention on Small Arms
and Light Weapons, Their Ammunition and Other
Related Materials, and also encouraged the States
in the Sahelo-Saharan region to facilitate the
functioning of national commissions to combat
illicit proliferation of small arms and light weapons
and to collaborate with civil society organizations
in these efforts.
66/39. Transparency in armaments
This resolution was last introduced in
2009. This year, the General Assembly requested
the Secretary-General, with the assistance of a
group of governmental experts to be convened in
2012, within available resources, on the basis of
equitable geographical representation, to prepare
a report on the continuing operation of the United
Nations Register of Conventional Arms and its
further development, taking into account the
work of the Conference on Disarmament, relevant
deliberations within the United Nations, the views
expressed by Member States and the reports of
the Secretary-General on the continuing operation
Introduced by: Mali, on behalf of the
States Members of the United Nations
that are Members of the Economic
Community of West African States
(19 Oct.)
GA vote: w/o vote (2 Dec.)
1st Cttee vote: w/o vote (27 Oct.)
For text and sponsors, see Yearbook,
Part I, pp. 56-59.
Introduced by: Netherlands (18 Oct.)
GA vote: 156-0-23; 154-0-22, o.p.
2; 154-0-20, o.p. 3; 156-0-19, o.p. 4;
157-0-21, o.p. 5 (b); 154-0-24, o.p. 5;
156-0-22, o.p. 7 (2 Dec.)
1st Cttee vote: 149-0-25; 150-0-24,
o.p. 2; 150-0-23, o.p. 3; 151-0-23, o.p.
4; 150-0-23, o.p. 5 (b); 149-0-25, o.p. 5;
150-0-23, o.p. 7 (27 Oct.)
For text, sponsors and voting pattern, see
Yearbook, Part I, pp. 72-81.
of the Register and its further development, with a view to taking a decision at its
sixty-eighth session. The Assembly also requested the Secretary-General to continue
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