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592 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crimedomestic character and that States Parties will apply their respective laws and regulationsin a manner consistent with this Protocol,“[(i) bis Reaffirming the principles of sovereignty, non-intervention and thejuridical equality of States,]“Have agreed as follows:”Notes by the Secretariat2. At its seventh session, the Ad Hoc Committee decided to remove references to“explosives” from the draft protocol, having been informed of a legal opinion provided bythe Office of Legal Affairs of the Secretariat regarding the interpretation of GeneralAssembly resolution 54/127 of 17 December 1999 (see A/AC.254/25, para. 22; see alsonote 2 by the Secretariat concerning article 3 of the present protocol).3. The text of the preamble contained in document A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.4 remainedvirtually unchanged in the subsequent drafts of the protocol (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Revs.5 and 6).The only amendment was to replace the words “other related materials” with the words “partsand components” throughout the text of the draft protocol, as agreed at the informal consultationsheld during the eighth session of the Ad Hoc Committee (see A/AC.254/L.174, para. 4).Twelfth session: 26 February-2 March 2001Colombia and Mexico (A/AC.254/L.276)Amendment to the preamble of the revised draft Protocol against the IllicitManufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components andAmmunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention againstTransnational Organized Crime 15“Preamble“The States Parties to the present Protocol,“Aware of the urgent need to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit manufacturingof and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, owingto the harmful effects of those activities on the security of each State, region and theworld as a whole, endangering the well-being of peoples, their social and economicdevelopment and their right to live in peace, as well as the destabilizing effects closelylinked to other transnational criminal activities, the high levels of crime and violencein many cities and communities and the incidence of inter-state conflict,“Convinced that combating the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms,their parts and components and ammunition requires international cooperation, theexchange of information and other appropriate measures at the national, regional andglobal levels,15This proposal was discussed informally by the Ad Hoc Committee on 26 February 2001.