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02/14/95, June. For an analysis of the efforts by arms traders to hamper the work of the 1995 UN
Commission of Inquiry, set up to establish how the arms got through see www.amnesty.org/
ailib/intcam/terror_trade_times
22 Canadian Mission to the UN in New York (1998), ‘A proposed global convention prohibiting
the international transfer of military small arms and light weapons to non-state actors’. Available
at: www.nisat.org/export_laws-regs%20linked/canada/discusion_papera_proposed.htm
23 European Union (1998), Joint Action of 17 December 1998 Adopted by the Council of the European
Union on the Basis of Article J.3 of the Treaty of the European Union on the European Union’s
Contribution to Combating the Destabilising Accumulation and Spread of Small Arms and Light
Weapons, 1999/34/CFSP of 17 December. Available at: projects.sipri.se/expcon/eusmja.htm
24 For more detailed analysis and recommendations, see Capie, David (2004), Armed Groups, Weapons
Availability and Misuse: An overview of the issues and options for action, Background Paper
for the meeting organised by the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Bamako (Mali), 25 May.
Available at: www.hdcentre.org (policy projects/small arms/publications)
25 These states include India, Israel, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Poland, the Russian Federation, Singapore,
South Korea, and the US.
26 Amnesty International (2003), ‘Mercenaries and arms pour into Côte d’Ivoire’, Terror Trade Times,
Issue 4, AI Index ACT 31/002/2003, 4 June. Available at: web.amnesty.org/pages/ttt4-article_5-eng
27 See box 8: Improving ammunition controls
28 IANSA and Biting the Bullet (2006), Reviewing Action on Small Arms 2006: Assessing the First
Five Years of the Programme of Action, p. 165. Available at: http://www.iansa.org/un/review2006/
redbook2006/index.htm
29 Southern African Development Community (2001), Protocol on the Control of Firearms, Ammunition
and Other Related Materials in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Region, 14 August. Available at: www.grip.org/bdg/g2010.html
30 EU (2003), Council Common Position 2003/468/CFSP of 23 June 2003 on the Control of Arms Brokering,
OJ of the EU, 25.6.2003, L156/79-80. Available at: europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/dat/2003/l_156/
l_15620030625en00790080.pdf
31 Available at: www.usun-vienna.usia.co.at/wassenaar/public03e.html
32 Available at: www.osce.org/fsc/documents/salw/
33 The Nairobi Protocol for the Prevention, Control and Reduction of Small Arms and Light Weapons in
the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa, Nairobi, 21 April 2004. Available at: www.saferafrica.
org/DocumentsCentre/NAIROBI-Protocol.asp
34 Organisation of American States (2003), Amendments to the Model Regulation for the Control of
the International Movement of Firearms, their Parts and Components and Ammunition, Proposed
by the Group of Experts—Broker Regulations, OEA/Ser.L/XIV.2.34 CICAD/doc1271/03, 13 November
2003, art. 5 (Prohibitions). Available at: www.cicad.oas.org/en/Assemblies/CICAD34/ENG/
Day2/ModelRegArms_Brokers.htm
35 IANSA is promoting a model text produced in 2001 by the Fund for Peace. See www.iansa.org/
issues/arms_brokers.htm
36 In December 2003, the OSCE adopted guidelines on arms exports that emphasised the importance
of national-level end-user controls. The topic has been raised at the UN as well, including
at the level of the Security Council, and some governments have argued for co-ordinated efforts.
See www.osce.org/fsc/documents/salw/ and www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sc7984.doc.htm
37 E-mail communication with Ambassador Steen Hohwü-Christensen, Department of Strategic
Export Controls, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, April 2005
38 UN General Assembly (1999), Report of the Group of Experts on the problem of ammunition and
explosive, A/54/155, 29 June, sec. 9, p. 4
39 Small Arms Survey 2005, pp. 97–121
40 Small Arms Survey 2005, pp. 31–32
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