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"UN: Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2001" [2005] ELECD 316; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 93

Section Title: UN: Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2001

Number of pages: 5

Extract:

93. UN: Protocol against the Illicit
Manufacturing of and Trafficking in
Firearms, Their Parts and Components and
Ammunition, supplementing the UN
Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime, 2001

Commentary: In 2001 the UN held a conference on the illicit trade in small arms
and light weapons in all its aspects and formulated an action programme: see
Conference Report, UN Doc A/CONF.192/15. See further, UN (2001), `Report of
the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime on the work of its twelfth session', UN Doc A/55/383/Add.2 and
the interpretative notes for the official records (travaux préparatoires) for the
Protocol's negotiation in UN Doc A/55/383/Add.3 (2001). See also, UN (1999),
`Report on the feasibility of restricting the manufacture and trade of small arms to
manufacturers and dealers authorized by States', UN Doc A/54/160; UN Secretary-
General (2000), `Report on the Illicit Traffic in Small Arms', UN Doc A/55/323.
Negotiators considered existing initiatives, including the `1991 Guidelines for
International Arms Transfers: UN Disarmament Commission' (1991), UN Doc
A/51/42, Annex to Report. See further, UN Secretary-General (1991), A compilation
of all texts of principles, guidelines or recommendations on subject items adopted
unanimously by the Disarmament Commission, UN Doc A/51/182; UN Secretary-
General (1991), `Ways and means of promoting transparency in international trans-
fer of conventional arms', UN Doc A/46/301. The Protocol extracted below was
adopted ...