MISSING PIECES - Inter-Parliamentary Union
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<strong>MISSING</strong> <strong>PIECES</strong><br />
02/14/95, June. For an analysis of the efforts by arms traders to hamper the work of the 1995 UN<br />
Commission of Inquiry, set up to establish how the arms got through see www.amnesty.org/<br />
ailib/intcam/terror_trade_times<br />
22 Canadian Mission to the UN in New York (1998), ‘A proposed global convention prohibiting<br />
the international transfer of military small arms and light weapons to non-state actors’. Available<br />
at: www.nisat.org/export_laws-regs%20linked/canada/discusion_papera_proposed.htm<br />
23 European <strong>Union</strong> (1998), Joint Action of 17 December 1998 Adopted by the Council of the European<br />
<strong>Union</strong> on the Basis of Article J.3 of the Treaty of the European <strong>Union</strong> on the European <strong>Union</strong>’s<br />
Contribution to Combating the Destabilising Accumulation and Spread of Small Arms and Light<br />
Weapons, 1999/34/CFSP of 17 December. Available at: projects.sipri.se/expcon/eusmja.htm<br />
24 For more detailed analysis and recommendations, see Capie, David (2004), Armed Groups, Weapons<br />
Availability and Misuse: An overview of the issues and options for action, Background Paper<br />
for the meeting organised by the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Bamako (Mali), 25 May.<br />
Available at: www.hdcentre.org (policy projects/small arms/publications)<br />
25 These states include India, Israel, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Poland, the Russian Federation, Singapore,<br />
South Korea, and the US.<br />
26 Amnesty <strong>Inter</strong>national (2003), ‘Mercenaries and arms pour into Côte d’Ivoire’, Terror Trade Times,<br />
Issue 4, AI Index ACT 31/002/2003, 4 June. Available at: web.amnesty.org/pages/ttt4-article_5-eng<br />
27 See box 8: Improving ammunition controls<br />
28 IANSA and Biting the Bullet (2006), Reviewing Action on Small Arms 2006: Assessing the First<br />
Five Years of the Programme of Action, p. 165. Available at: http://www.iansa.org/un/review2006/<br />
redbook2006/index.htm<br />
29 Southern African Development Community (2001), Protocol on the Control of Firearms, Ammunition<br />
and Other Related Materials in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)<br />
Region, 14 August. Available at: www.grip.org/bdg/g2010.html<br />
30 EU (2003), Council Common Position 2003/468/CFSP of 23 June 2003 on the Control of Arms Brokering,<br />
OJ of the EU, 25.6.2003, L156/79-80. Available at: europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/dat/2003/l_156/<br />
l_15620030625en00790080.pdf<br />
31 Available at: www.usun-vienna.usia.co.at/wassenaar/public03e.html<br />
32 Available at: www.osce.org/fsc/documents/salw/<br />
33 The Nairobi Protocol for the Prevention, Control and Reduction of Small Arms and Light Weapons in<br />
the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa, Nairobi, 21 April 2004. Available at: www.saferafrica.<br />
org/DocumentsCentre/NAIROBI-Protocol.asp<br />
34 Organisation of American States (2003), Amendments to the Model Regulation for the Control of<br />
the <strong>Inter</strong>national Movement of Firearms, their Parts and Components and Ammunition, Proposed<br />
by the Group of Experts—Broker Regulations, OEA/Ser.L/XIV.2.34 CICAD/doc1271/03, 13 November<br />
2003, art. 5 (Prohibitions). Available at: www.cicad.oas.org/en/Assemblies/CICAD34/ENG/<br />
Day2/ModelRegArms_Brokers.htm<br />
35 IANSA is promoting a model text produced in 2001 by the Fund for Peace. See www.iansa.org/<br />
issues/arms_brokers.htm<br />
36 In December 2003, the OSCE adopted guidelines on arms exports that emphasised the importance<br />
of national-level end-user controls. The topic has been raised at the UN as well, including<br />
at the level of the Security Council, and some governments have argued for co-ordinated efforts.<br />
See www.osce.org/fsc/documents/salw/ and www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sc7984.doc.htm<br />
37 E-mail communication with Ambassador Steen Hohwü-Christensen, Department of Strategic<br />
Export Controls, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, April 2005<br />
38 UN General Assembly (1999), Report of the Group of Experts on the problem of ammunition and<br />
explosive, A/54/155, 29 June, sec. 9, p. 4<br />
39 Small Arms Survey 2005, pp. 97–121<br />
40 Small Arms Survey 2005, pp. 31–32<br />
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