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This section draws on discussions within the SAS/UNIDIR Study Group<br />
<strong>and</strong> on each <strong>of</strong> the four technical papers prepared <strong>for</strong> the SAS/UNIDIR<br />
Study Group.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> UK is quite typical in this respect. Although it now maintains a<br />
well-developed centralized national database on weapons held in<br />
armed <strong>for</strong>ces’ inventories, it does not yet have a national database<br />
covering all firearms in private or commercial ownership. M. Hallowes,<br />
op. cit. note 2.<br />
27<br />
G. Thomas, op. cit. note 2.<br />
28<br />
For an alternative view, see I. Berkol, op. cit. note 13.<br />
29<br />
M. Hallowes, op. cit. note 2.<br />
30<br />
Organization <strong>of</strong> American States, General Assembly Resolution AG/<br />
RES.1797 [XXX1-0/01], 5 June 2001.<br />
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http://salsa.oceanus.ca/<br />
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European Community, Directive 91/4777EEC, 1991.<br />
33<br />
South Africa Police Service Firearms <strong>Tracing</strong> Pilot Project, quoted in M.<br />
Hallowes, op. cit. note 2.<br />
34<br />
G. Thomas, op. cit. note 2.<br />
35<br />
Ibid.<br />
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ATF has created three regional Crime Gun Centres in Chicago, New<br />
York City <strong>and</strong> Washington DC, with a fourth due to open in 2003 in<br />
Los Angeles.<br />
37<br />
M. Hallowes, op. cit. note 2.<br />
38<br />
G. Thomas, op. cit. note 2.<br />
39<br />
M. Hallowes, op. cit. note 2, <strong>and</strong> ibid.<br />
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An example is the US, where each branch <strong>of</strong> the armed services<br />
maintains its own, computerized records. <strong>Small</strong> <strong>Arms</strong> Survey, <strong>Small</strong><br />
<strong>Arms</strong> Survey 2002, Ox<strong>for</strong>d University Press, Ox<strong>for</strong>d, 2002, p. 261.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> UN International Commission <strong>of</strong> Inquiry on <strong>Arms</strong> Trafficking in<br />
Rw<strong>and</strong>a, established pursuant to United Nations Security Council<br />
Resolution 1013, 7 September 1995, <strong>and</strong> reactivated in 1998 by<br />
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1161, 7 May 1998.<br />
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Report <strong>of</strong> the Panel <strong>of</strong> Experts on Violations <strong>of</strong> Security Council<br />
Sanctions against UNITA, in Annex 1 <strong>of</strong> United Nations Document S/<br />
2000/203, 10 March 2000.<br />
43<br />
As discussed, <strong>for</strong> example, by O. Greene, op. cit. note 22.<br />
44<br />
Lack <strong>of</strong> clarity about such issues provided part <strong>of</strong> the motivation <strong>for</strong> the<br />
French-Swiss initiative.<br />
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See also M. Wéry <strong>and</strong> I. Berkol, op. cit. note 2.