The police authorities are sometimes the major sources of the arms seizures statistics.

Azerbaijan adheres to the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and has signed all major international arms and weapons treaties.

Identify in detail the primary sources (inside and outside Yemen) of the types of weapons and ammunition identified in question 5.

Using participatory monitoring and evaluation techniques, UNIDIR has identified key criteria for successful weapons collection.

Worried about the threat to its left flank in Bastogne, it organized a major combined arms attack to seize Noville.

The karyotype contains 52 chromosomes with a total of 58 major arms (2n 52, FN 58).

Senegal has signed the major international conventions relating to the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their means of delivery and has accepted the obligations flowing from such treaties.

Mr. Baichorov (Belarus) said that the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) remained the fundamental key to the maintenance of international security.

Conventional disarmament, especially with regard to major weapons systems, small arms and light weapons and land mines, has received growing attention from the international community over the past few years.

Indeed, Iran was a major victim of chemical weapons attacks during its 1980 1988 war with Saddam Hussein s Iraq.

This remains one of the major ways in which the negative forces access arms and are allowed to reorganize.

The draft instrument on that matter quite rightly emphasizes such key areas as weapons marking, record keeping and increasing international cooperation in that area.

They now control the main crossing points on the border with the Dominican Republic and are working to stem smuggling and arms trafficking.

Propaganda, rocket attacks, improvised explosive devices and the occasional suicide bomber may remain the main weapons used by the opposing militant forces.

At the same time, in many parts of the world small arms are also the breadwinners and the primary means of protection for civilians struggling to survive in societies where the rule of the gun rather than the rule of law dominates.

It supported the Interdiction Principles for the Proliferation Security Initiative, which it would soon be joining, and had applied for membership in the major international arms control regimes.

Stresses that, at this stage, the contribution to global anti terrorist efforts in the context of the Chemical Weapons Convention should focus on the following main areas

From the outset of the programme the United Kingdom had identified the four key areas to be addressed as authentication, dismantling, disposition and monitoring the weapon complex.

Nuclear disarmament has, since the inception of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 35 years ago, been one of its three core commitments constituting the grand bargain of the Treaty.

Believing also that an important objective of conventional arms control in regions of tension should be to prevent the possibility of military attack launched by surprise and to avoid aggression,

Believing also that an important objective of conventional arms control in regions of tension should be to prevent the possibility of military attack launched by surprise and to avoid aggression,

The United Kingdom has identified the primary barriers to successful verification in a series of technologies and contexts, including the protection of national security and proliferation sensitive information.

The demand for financial sources by major parties to the conflict in Somalia to fund the arms purchases has soared, along with the arms prices.

In conformity with the legislation in force, data concerning persons brokering transactions involving firearms are entered into the licence for the export of controlled goods, i.e. dual use goods and technologies in conformity with Council (EC) Regulation No.

The United States offers the following language for inclusion in the final report of Main Committee III and in any product of the 2005 NPT Review Conference.

The key elements of the Security Council sanctions the Consolidated List, the assets freeze, the arms embargo and the travel ban continue to provide the basis for an effective regime.

In this context, it may be useful to remind ourselves that the very first resolution that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 24 January 1946 called for the elimination of all atomic weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction .

The States parties agree to establish a subsidiary body to Main Committee I of the 2005 Review Conference to deliberate on practical steps for systematic and progressive efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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But, rather than pursuing joint initiatives aimed at advancing the two countries shared interests in these areas, the US proposed nuclear weapons reductions as the primary mechanism of the diplomatic reset.

18.7 Disarmament and non proliferation education to ensure that key sectors of society understand the importance of achieving and maintaining a nuclear weapons free world and how they can contribute to this goal.

The principal leader, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, has also been one of the key recipients of the arms shipments, including high explosives, which have been identified by the Monitoring Group during the current mandate period.

The Moscow Treaty needed to be supplemented with provisions on irreversibility, transparency and verification, the key principles agreed at the 2000 Conference, with a view to the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.

Australia is a State Party to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).

Norway attaches great importance to the full implementation of relevant International Atomic Energy Agency instruments on nuclear security and safety.

Opposition elements in Mogadishu and their allies in central and southern Somalia have been the primary recipients of arms from BAM, while incidental purchases have been made by TFG members (see annex I for transaction details).

As a non nuclear weapon State, the main contribution by Australia to nuclear disarmament is working for progress on the reinforcing steps essential to create an environment favourable to the elimination of nuclear weapons.

b) the issuance of a permit for acquisition or possession of a category A firearm or a category B firearm to the relevant Member State of the European Union, in which resides the person to whom the permit was issued,

Mr. Menon (Singapore) said that the NPT, with its system of integrated safeguards, remained the lynchpin of the global non proliferation regime and one of the best guarantees for the security of small States like Singapore.

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