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[...] [...] use of certain weapons (South Africa); [...] [...]

[...] issue of nuclear-weapon-free zones, NAM reaffirms the need for the speedy establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East in accordance with Security Council resolution 487 (1981) and paragraph 14 of Council resolution 687 (1991) and the relevant General Assembly resolutions adopted by consensus; and, pending its establishment, NAM demands that Israel, the only country in the region that has not joined the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons or declared its intention to do so, renounce possession of nuclear weapons, accede to [...] [...]

[...] [...] unauthorized armed personnel, assets and weapons, taking all necessary action within its capabilities to ensure that its area of operations is not utilized for hostile activities, and assisting the Government of Lebanon, at its request, in securing its borders and other entry points in order to prevent the entry into Lebanon without its consent of arms or related materiel.

Thus, Israel joins the international community in its call for robust action against arms smuggling along the Syrian-Lebanese border, in accordance with the recommendations set out in the report of the Lebanon Independent Border Assessment Team II, transmitted by the Secretary-General in document S/2008/582.

[...] [...] the embargo on arms and related materiel.

[...] [...] from acquiring weapons of mass destruction” [...]

[...] [...] of Nuclear Weapons as a step towards a nuclear-weapon-free world, and the responsibility of all States which possess nuclear weapons to reduce nuclear danger.

[...] [...] the scourge of nuclear weapons.

The Regulation amends section 15A(2) of the principal Regulation by adding a new paragraph(c) to give effect to a decision of the Security Council in Resolution 1683 of 13 June 2006 to allow the provision to Liberia of technical assistance or training related to the supply, delivery, manufacture, maintenance or use of weapons or ammunition, as approved in advance on a case-by-case basis by the Committee of the Security Council established pursuant to paragraph 21 of Resolution 1521, intended for use by members of the Liberian police and security forces who have been vetted and trained since the inception of the United Nations Mission in Liberia in October 2003.

[...] [...] and circulation of small arms and light weapons (see [...] [...]

[...] [...] commissions on small arms and light weapons; implementing [...] [...]

[...] part of any weapon mentioned in paragraph (a) (i) or (ii), any accessory to any such weapon designed or adapted to diminish the noise or flash caused by firing the weapon and any explosive-operated [...] [...]

[...] [...] abolition of nuclear weapons; (c) national conferences on women and peace, disarmament, non-violence and sustainable clean energy; (d) various discussions and events on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000); (e) campaigns such as “Make Poverty History”; (f) public lectures on the abolition of war, women and development, anti-trafficking and demilitarization; (g) a peacebuilding symposium in Rwanda; (h) presentations to examine the impact of war on youth and to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; (i) workshops for Somali youth in support of gender equality education, as called for in the Agreed Conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women; (j) a public forum against nuclear weapons.

[...] [...] commitments for nuclear-weapon States to reduce the operational status of their arsenals and to cease the development and qualitative improvement of their nuclear weapons; it did not oblige the nuclear-weapon States to abolish the role of nuclear weapons in their military doctrines or to accept a legally binding instrument for the prohibition of nuclear weapons; it did not call for the withdrawal of nuclear weapons from the territories of non-nuclearweapon States; it did not include the specific timeline for the total elimination of nuclear weapons called for by the Group of Non-Aligned States parties to the Treaty; and, in particular, it failed to call upon Israel, the only obstacle to a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East, to cease the development of nuclear weapons and to accede [...]

[...] [...] destruction, of weapons obtained through illicit trafficking or illicit manufacture as well as of weapons and ammunition declared by competent national authorities to be surplus to requirements, particularly with regard to small arms and light weapons, unless another form of disposition or use has been officially authorized and provided that such weapons have been duly [...] [...]

[...] [...] not be an effective weapon”, the legal adviser [...]

[...] [...] the use of certain weapons of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering and the prohibition on PMSCs and their personnel with regard to illegally acquiring, possessing or trafficking in arms and ammunitions.

[...] trafficking in and manufacture of small arms” with the words “illicit manufacture of and trafficking in small arms”.

In its resolution 63/240, entitled “Towards an arms trade treaty: establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms”, the General Assembly decided to establish an open-ended working group that would meet for up to six one-week sessions starting in 2009 in order to facilitate [...] [...]

[...] [...] terrorism, trafficking in arms, drugs and humans, [...]

The Conference also takes note of the proposal that States Parties may need to discuss the detailed procedure for assistance in order to ensure that timely emergency assistance would be provided by States Parties, if requested, in the event of use of biological or toxin weapons.

At this meeting, the ISU Director provided additional information on the cost structure of the ISU and of other conventions’ support mechanisms (BWC, CCW), a description of the financing of the different ISU activities, under the present funding scheme, and, an overview of ISU’s tasks related to meetings of the states parties, review conferences and the intersessional work programme.

[...] [...] addition to an arms embargo, imposed [...] [...]

[...] [...] use of nuclear weapons and the necessity to address increased proliferation risks, to decrease nuclear arsenals, to strengthen nuclear security and to improve nuclear safety, we consider it urgent to reduce nuclear risks and achieve tangible progress on the path towards a world free of nuclear weapons.

[...] [...] nuclear, other weapons of mass destructionrelated [...] [...]

[...] [...] Nations Sanctions (Arms Embargoes) Regulation (Cap. 537 sub. leg. E) (the Arms Embargoes Regulation) [...] [...]

[...] [...] eliminating nuclear weapons within a specified [...] [...]

[...] [...] modernization of nuclear weapons; secondly, the possible acquisition of these weapons by terrorist groups, even when these weapons are held only by the nuclear-weapon States themselves, which have the prime and absolute responsibility for preventing such diversion; thirdly, the potential use of these systems by nuclear-weapon States against those that have pledged not to develop such technology; and lastly, the concept according to which the only genuine guarantee that these threats will end is the total and complete destruction of such weapons demanded by all [...]

In addition, the 10MSP President joined the ICBL in expressing concerns about large weapons stores containing anti-personnel mines in Tripoli remaining unguarded and unsecured weeks after forces aligned to Libya’s National Transitional Council seized control.