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692 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“[3. States Parties shall seek the support and cooperation of manufacturers, dealers,importers, exporters and commercial carriers of firearms, ammunition, explosivesand other related materials to prevent and detect the illicit activities referred to inparagraph 1 of this article.]” 5Notes by the Secretariat1. The version of article 15 contained in document A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.1remained virtually unchanged in the intermediate drafts of the protocol(A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Revs.2-4). The only difference in the text contained in documentA/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.4 was the deletion of the word “explosives” throughout the article,following the decision of the Ad Hoc Committee at its seventh session to remove referencesto explosives from the draft protocol after having been informed of a legal opinionprovided by the Office of Legal Affairs of the Secretariat regarding the interpretation ofGeneral Assembly resolution 54/127 of 17 December 1999 (see A/AC.254/25, para. 22;see also note 2 by the Secretariat concerning article 3 of the present protocol).2. At the seventh session of the Ad Hoc Committee, the importance of this articlewas stressed by some delegations. Despite there being an identical provision in the draftconvention, it was decided to retain the article for the time being.Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.5)Eighth session: 21 February-3 March 2000“Article 15“Cooperation“1. States Parties shall cooperate at the bilateral, regional and international levelsto prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking infirearms, their parts and components 6 and ammunition.“2. Each State Party shall identify a national body or a single point of contactto act as liaison between it and other States Parties [and between it and the relevantinter-governmental organizations] [on matters relating to this Protocol].“[3. States Parties shall seek the support and cooperation of manufacturers, dealers,importers, exporters and commercial carriers of firearms, their parts and componentsand ammunition to prevent and detect the illicit activities referred to in paragraph1 of this article.]”5Addition proposed by Mexico (see A/AC.254/5/Add.1 and Corr.1); see also the comments of Japan (A/AC.254/5/Add.1and Corr.1).6The words “other related materials” were replaced by the words “parts and components” throughout the text of thedraft protocol, as agreed at the informal consultations held during the eighth session of the Ad Hoc Committee (seeA/AC.254/L.174, para. 4).