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602 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“Option 2 4“(b) To promote and facilitate cooperation and exchange of information andexperience among States Parties to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit manufacturingof and trafficking in firearms, ammunition, explosives and other related materials.”5 Fifth session: 4-15 October 1999Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.2)“The purpose of this Protocol is:“Article III“Purpose 6“(a) To promote and facilitate cooperation among States Parties to the Protocoland to the Convention with respect to the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking infirearms, [their parts and components and] 7 ammunition [, explosives] [and other relatedmaterials] 8, 9“Option 1“(b) To prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit manufacturing of and traffickingin firearms, ammunition and other related materials.“Option 2“(b) To promote and facilitate cooperation and exchange of information andexperience among States Parties to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit manufacturingof and trafficking in firearms, ammunition, explosives and other related materials.”104Addition proposed by Japan and Mexico (see A/AC.254/5/Add.1 and Corr.1), supported by Senegal.5Inclusion of cooperation among States in the purpose provision was supported by France, which noted that the purposeof such cooperation should not go beyond combating transnational organized crime into the area of disarmament andarms control.6At the fifth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, some delegations suggested that the subject of article 1, paragraph 2,including subparagraphs 2 (a) and (b), dealt with the purpose of the draft protocol rather than its relationship with the draftconvention, and should therefore be moved to article 3. There was some support for a revised text of article 3 based on thissuggestion and a compromise between the options already proposed. (Mexico and the United States proposed a text thatwas translated and distributed at the sixth session of the Ad Hoc Committee.) Since this provision was closely related toarticle 1 of the draft protocol and several provisions of the draft convention, it was decided that further discussion shouldbe deferred until the unsettled issues in those provisions had been resolved.7Addition proposed by Japan (see A/AC.254/L.22). See footnote 12 concerning the preamble to the present protocol.8Deletion proposed by Japan (A/AC.254/L.22). See footnote 13 concerning the preamble to the present protocol.9The United States proposed that the text of this paragraph should be deleted and replaced with the text presently inarticle 1, paragraph 2.10At the fifth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, the Syrian Arab Republic proposed inserting the words “in the contextof transnational organized crime” at the end of this paragraph (see A/AC.254/L.67).