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THEME 2<br />
for export authorisations according to strict national regulations and procedures that cover all<br />
small arms and light weapons and are consistent with the existing responsibilities of States under<br />
relevant international law’.<br />
3 Small Arms Survey 2005: Weapons at War, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 109–113<br />
4 <strong>Inter</strong>national Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (2003), Agenda for Humanitarian<br />
Action, Geneva 2-6 December. Available at: www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/p1103/<br />
$File/ICRC_002_1103.PDF!Open<br />
5 Frey, Barbara (2002), The Question of the Trade, Carrying and Use of Small Arms and Light<br />
Weapons in the Context of Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms, Working Paper submitted<br />
to the UN Commission on Human Rights’ Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection<br />
of Human Rights, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2002/39, 30 May. Available at: www1.umn.edu/humanrts/demo/<br />
FreyPaper.pdf<br />
6 E-mail communication with Pablo Dreyfus, Viva Rio, 5 April 2005<br />
7 UN (2001), Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts<br />
and Components, and Ammunition, Supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational<br />
Organised Crime, reproduced in UN document A/CONF.192/15, 20 July<br />
8 Available at disarmament.un.org/cab/smallarms/docs/rep52298.pdf<br />
9 See www.iansa.org/control_arms/index.htm or www.controlarms.org<br />
10 The Wassenaar Arrangement is an organisation of 33 of the world’s largest arms exporters from<br />
five continents dedicated to promoting transparency and greater responsibility regarding the<br />
arms trade, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic,<br />
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg,<br />
the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Romania, the Russian<br />
Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the UK and the US.<br />
11 Available at: www.wassenaar.org/docs/best_practice_salw.htm<br />
12 Available at: www.wassenaar.org/2003Plenary/MANPADS_2003.htm<br />
13 The text of the Draft Framework Convention is available at: www.iansa.org/documents/2004/att_<br />
0504.pdf. Information on the campaign to support the ATT can be found at: www.controlarms.org<br />
14 The full text of the Resolution (A/RES/61/89) is available at: http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/<br />
GEN/N06/499/77/PDF/N0649977.pdf?OpenElement<br />
15 European <strong>Union</strong> (1998), European <strong>Union</strong> Code of Conduct on Arms Exports, 8 June, reproduced in<br />
UN document A/CONF.192/PC/3 of 13 March 2000<br />
16 Embargoes are also imposed by regional organisations, most notably by the EU and the OSCE.<br />
17 UNSCR 1572 (Côte d’Ivoire); UNSCR 1701 (Lebanon); UNSCR 733 (Somalia)<br />
18 UNSCR 1493 (DRC); UNSCR 1521- modified by UNSCR 1683 (Liberia); UNSCR 1011 (Rwanda);<br />
UNSCR 1171 (Sierra Leone); UNSCR 1556 (Sudan); UNSCR 1390 (Taliban)<br />
19 In a recent resolution on the situation in Burundi, the Security Council expressed “its deep concern<br />
over the illicit flow of arms provided to armed groups and movements, in particular those<br />
which are not parties to the peace process under the Arusha Agreement” and called upon “all<br />
States to halt such flow” (S/RES/1545, 21 May 2004, para. 18).<br />
20 The UN has established expert panels to investigate the violation of sanctions and embargoes in<br />
Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Angola, among others. See, for example, the<br />
announcement of the findings of the Expert Panel on Liberia at: www.un.org/News/Press/docs/<br />
2001/sc7196.doc.htm<br />
21 Investigative reports in the mid-1990s exposed the role of France, South Africa, Israel, Albania,<br />
Bulgaria, and others in arms supplies to Rwanda before and immediately after the 1994 genocide.<br />
See Human Rights Watch (1994), Arming Rwanda: The Arms Trade and Human Rights<br />
Abuses in the Rwandan War, January; Human Rights Watch (1995), Rearming With Impunity:<br />
<strong>Inter</strong>national Support for the Perpetrators of the Rwandan Genocide. Vol. 7, No. 4, May; and<br />
Amnesty <strong>Inter</strong>national (1995), Rwanda: Arming the perpetrators of the genocide, AI Index: AFR<br />
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