J. Illicit trade in hazardous waste

The databases could store information on importing, exporting and transit countries and the conditions for issuing licenses, which contribute to the enforcement of preventative measures and countermeasures against illegal trade

The extent of this illicit trade is now estimated by the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to be second only to trafficking in illicit drugs in financial turnover.

A. Usurpation of legitimate commerce

In contrast, fishermen engaged in smuggling goods, weapons, drugs and human beings, inter alia, reap alluring profits, and it is this that induces them to perpetrate such acts in violation of the law.

Recalling that the elimination of illicit diamonds from legitimate trade is the primary objective of the Kimberley Process,

(b) Coordinating within regional networks to exchange information on licit and illicit trade. Consideration may be given to setting up databases on illegal trade in the regional networks.

In some countries illegal trade in ozone depleting substances has increased dramatically and a variety of smuggling methods have emerged.

While the proportion of this trade that is illegal is difficult to determine, it is estimated that the financial cost of the illicit global wildlife trade runs into several billion dollars and that its environmental costs are immeasurable.

On the contrary, recent illegal violation of Japanese territorial waters by Chinese nuclear submarines suggests that, rather than being reduced, ASW capability should be built up further.

The Commission strongly urges all illegal armed groups to comply with the Convention and immediately stop using anti personnel landmines and destroy all stockpiles.

The Commission strongly urges all illegal armed groups to comply with the Convention and immediately stop using anti personnel landmines and destroy all stockpiles.

Greater international cooperation is also required to effectively combat the illegal trade in wildlife.

Organized crime is taking over all aspects of this illicit trade, from smuggling precursor chemicals to manufacturing and trafficking the drugs.

Illicit synthetic drugs

Illicit synthetic drugs

Illegal migration

proposal on mines other than anti personnel mines (motapm)

Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

Illegal trade in hazardous waste continues to occur in violation of the 1989 Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal.

The Commission condemns frequent indiscriminate attacks committed by the illegal armed groups with anti personnel landmines, which have maimed or killed hundreds of Colombians, including women and children.

Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

Responsibility of international organizations

Illicit synthetic drugs

However, it was recalled that, according to article 53 of the draft articles on responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts,4 countermeasures were excluded if redress proceedings had been instituted, even by individuals.

China fully supports the efforts being made against the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons and has played an active part in the relevant international efforts.

Recalling its resolution 47 1, in which it stressed the importance of the annual reports questionnaire and the biennial reports questionnaire as a basis of countermeasures and for the evaluation of the progress made in reducing the demand for and supply of illicit drugs,

While there are strong indications that organized criminal groups are involved in the illicit trade, the extent and nature of that involvement remains unclear.

(b) Increasing the awareness of the Afghan population about the problems and threats emanating from the illicit cultivation of opium poppy and the production of and trafficking in illicit narcotic drugs

(b) Increasing the awareness of the Afghan population about the problems and threats emanating from the illicit cultivation of opium poppy and the production of and trafficking in illicit narcotic drugs

The Illicit Crop Monitoring Programme assists the international community and Governments concerned in monitoring the extent and evolution of the illicit cultivation of narcotic crops.

(a) Effective export, import and transfer controls and their enforcement as the keystone to any successful efforts to mitigate the problems of illicit trade in small arms and light weapons

Countermeasures in respect of an internationally wrongful act

Working Group on Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts

Responsibility of a State for its internationally wrongful acts

The illegal drug economy is also a great challenge.

(a) Issues related to the irresponsible use of MOTAPM,

Therefore, the measures to deal with MOTAPM should be different with those for APL.

Working Group on Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines

China believes that in the pre war period, minefields should be monitored and guarded effectively, but need no marking or fencing in the post war period, however, minefields should be marked and fenced immediately.

Taking into account the views of other parties on this issue, China is ready to demonstrate flexibility by making some amendment to the provisions on the first category of sensitive fuzes in the Coordinator's Paper, i.e., tilt rods do not appear to be a recommended method of activation, if it cannot be designed in such a way that an individual cannot, within reason, initiate the mine .

Section IV Active life of MOTAPM

Two important new research initiatives were launched during the period an investigation into the value of illicit drug markets and the development of a global illicit drug index.

The States should take all appropriate steps aimed at preventing the unauthorized access to or use of MOTAPM by any individual, group of persons or entity, not acting under the legal authority of a State, including inter alia