View/save PDF version of this document - La Strada International

Part Four. Preamble 585leisure or recreational activities such as travel or tourism for sport shooting, huntingand other forms of lawful ownership and use of firearms that are recognized by StatesParties, 3“Option 2 4“(h) Recognizing that some States have developed different cultural and historicaluses for firearms, including leisure or recreational activities such as travel ortourism for sport shooting, hunting and other forms of lawful ownership and use thatare recognized by such States,“Option 1“(i) Recalling that States Parties to the present Protocol have their own domesticlaws and regulations on firearms, ammunition and other related materials and recognizingthat this Protocol does not commit States Parties to enacting legislation orregulations pertaining to firearms ownership, possession or trade of a wholly domesticnature and that the States Parties will apply those laws and regulations in a mannerconsistent with this Protocol,“Option 2 4“(i) Recognizing also that States Parties have their respective domestic lawsand regulations pertaining to firearms ownership, possession or trade of a whollydomestic character and that States Parties will apply their respective laws and regulationsin a manner consistent with this Protocol,“[(...) Reaffirming the principles of sovereignty, non-intervention and the juridicalequality of States,] 10“Have agreed as follows:”Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.2)Third session: 28 April-3 May 1999“Revised draft Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking inFirearms, Ammunition and Other Related Materials, Supplementary to theUnited Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 11“The States Parties to the present Protocol,“Option 1“(a) Bearing in mind that freedom from the fear of crime is fundamental tointernational cooperation and to the sustainable development of States and that inter-10Addition proposed by Mexico (see A/AC.254/5/Add.1 and Corr.1) and Colombia.11Japan proposed that the protocol should be entitled “Protocol to Combat the Illicit Manufacturing of and Traffickingin Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, Supplementary to the United Nations Convention againstTransnational Organized Crime”, using the same wording as in Economic and Social Council resolution 1998/18 and GeneralAssembly resolution 53/111 (see A/AC.254/L.22).