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MAURITIUS 39 State-owned firearms Import, export, transfer, transit Analytical category International & regional agreements Current national legislative controls Conformity Controls over import, export, transfer, transit (of state-owned firearms) UN Firearms Protocol Art. 8 (c) Requires provision for the unique marking of firearms when transferred from government stocks to permanent civilian use. The national legislation does not conform to the international and regional agreements. No provision is made to provide controls over state owned firearms. State-owned firearms Disposal / destruction Analytical category International & regional agreements Current national legislative controls Conformity Surpluses, including redundant, obsolete, seized and collected firearms in state possession SADC Firearms Protocol Art 10 (1) Bamako Declaration Art. 3 A (iv) UN Programme of Action Section II Art. 16 and 18 Provide that all confiscated, seized or collected SALW are destroyed subject to any legal constraints. Stipulates the need for provisions to regularly review state held stocks, to identify surpluses and have procedures in place for the responsible disposal, preferably through destruction of such surpluses. The national legislation does not conform to the international and regional agreements. No provision is made to provide controls over state owned firearms.
This report is part of Saferworld’s Arms and Security Programme and a project of SaferAfrica’s Arms Unit. An earlier draft of this report was presented at a seminar in Brussels in November 2002 entitled: ‘Advancing implementation of the SADC Firearms Protocol: Deepening SADC-EU Co-operation’. SaferAfrica is a not-for-profit organisation that assists governments and civil society to implement agreed policy on peace and security. Its headquarters are in Pretoria, South Africa. Saferworld is an independent foreign affairs think tank, based in London, UK, working to identify, develop and publicise more effective approaches to tackling and preventing armed conflicts. SaferAfrica Trelawney House 173 Beckett Street Arcadia, Pretoria 0083 South Africa Phone: +27 12 481 6200 Fax: +27 12 344 6708 Email: saferafrica@saferafrica.org Web: www.saferafrica.org Saferworld 46 Grosvenor Gardens London SW1W 0EB UK Phone: +44 (0)20 7881 9290 Fax: +44 (0)20 7881 9291 Email: general@saferworld.org.uk Web: www.saferworld.org.uk ISBN 0 948546 93 X
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