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for export authorisations according to strict national regulations and procedures that cover all
small arms and light weapons and are consistent with the existing responsibilities of States under
relevant international law’.
3 Small Arms Survey 2005: Weapons at War, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 109–113
4 International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (2003), Agenda for Humanitarian
Action, Geneva 2-6 December. Available at: www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/p1103/
$File/ICRC_002_1103.PDF!Open
5 Frey, Barbara (2002), The Question of the Trade, Carrying and Use of Small Arms and Light
Weapons in the Context of Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms, Working Paper submitted
to the UN Commission on Human Rights’ Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection
of Human Rights, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2002/39, 30 May. Available at: www1.umn.edu/humanrts/demo/
FreyPaper.pdf
6 E-mail communication with Pablo Dreyfus, Viva Rio, 5 April 2005
7 UN (2001), Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts
and Components, and Ammunition, Supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organised Crime, reproduced in UN document A/CONF.192/15, 20 July
8 Available at disarmament.un.org/cab/smallarms/docs/rep52298.pdf
9 See www.iansa.org/control_arms/index.htm or www.controlarms.org
10 The Wassenaar Arrangement is an organisation of 33 of the world’s largest arms exporters from
five continents dedicated to promoting transparency and greater responsibility regarding the
arms trade, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg,
the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Romania, the Russian
Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the UK and the US.
11 Available at: www.wassenaar.org/docs/best_practice_salw.htm
12 Available at: www.wassenaar.org/2003Plenary/MANPADS_2003.htm
13 The text of the Draft Framework Convention is available at: www.iansa.org/documents/2004/att_
0504.pdf. Information on the campaign to support the ATT can be found at: www.controlarms.org
14 The full text of the Resolution (A/RES/61/89) is available at: http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/
GEN/N06/499/77/PDF/N0649977.pdf?OpenElement
15 European Union (1998), European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports, 8 June, reproduced in
UN document A/CONF.192/PC/3 of 13 March 2000
16 Embargoes are also imposed by regional organisations, most notably by the EU and the OSCE.
17 UNSCR 1572 (Côte d’Ivoire); UNSCR 1701 (Lebanon); UNSCR 733 (Somalia)
18 UNSCR 1493 (DRC); UNSCR 1521- modified by UNSCR 1683 (Liberia); UNSCR 1011 (Rwanda);
UNSCR 1171 (Sierra Leone); UNSCR 1556 (Sudan); UNSCR 1390 (Taliban)
19 In a recent resolution on the situation in Burundi, the Security Council expressed “its deep concern
over the illicit flow of arms provided to armed groups and movements, in particular those
which are not parties to the peace process under the Arusha Agreement” and called upon “all
States to halt such flow” (S/RES/1545, 21 May 2004, para. 18).
20 The UN has established expert panels to investigate the violation of sanctions and embargoes in
Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Angola, among others. See, for example, the
announcement of the findings of the Expert Panel on Liberia at: www.un.org/News/Press/docs/
2001/sc7196.doc.htm
21 Investigative reports in the mid-1990s exposed the role of France, South Africa, Israel, Albania,
Bulgaria, and others in arms supplies to Rwanda before and immediately after the 1994 genocide.
See Human Rights Watch (1994), Arming Rwanda: The Arms Trade and Human Rights
Abuses in the Rwandan War, January; Human Rights Watch (1995), Rearming With Impunity:
International Support for the Perpetrators of the Rwandan Genocide. Vol. 7, No. 4, May; and
Amnesty International (1995), Rwanda: Arming the perpetrators of the genocide, AI Index: AFR
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