United Nations General Assembly A/RES/58/241 Distr.: General 9 January 2004 Fifty-eighth session Agenda item 73 (n) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003 [on the report of the First Committee (A/58/462)] 58/241. The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects The General Assembly, Reaffirming its resolution 57/72 of 22 November 2002, Recalling its resolutions 50/70 B of 12 December 1995, 52/38 J of 9 December 1997, 53/77 E and 53/77 T of 4 December 1998, 54/54 R of 1 December 1999, 54/54 V of 15 December 1999, 55/33 Q of 20 November 2000 and 56/24 V of 24 December 2001, Emphasizing the importance of early and full implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, adopted by the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, 1 Welcoming the adoption by consensus of the report of the First Biennial Meeting of States to Consider the Implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, held in New York from 7 to 11 July 2003, 2 Welcoming also the efforts by Member States to submit, on a voluntary basis, national reports on their implementation of the Programme of Action, Noting with satisfaction regional efforts being undertaken in support of the implementation of the Programme of Action, Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 57/72, 3 Welcoming the report on the feasibility of developing an international instrument to enable States to identify and trace, in a timely and reliable manner, _______________ 1 See Report of the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, New York, 9–20 July 2001 (A/CONF.192/15), chap. IV, para. 24. 2 A/CONF.192/BMS/2003/1. 3 See A/58/207. 03 50898