United Nations
A/RES/58/60
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 January 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 74
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2003
[on the report of the First Committee (A/58/463)]
58/60.
United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament
and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 41/60 J of 3 December 1986, 42/39 K of
30 November 1987 and 43/76 H of 7 December 1988 on the United Nations
Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the
Caribbean, with headquarters in Lima,
Recalling also its resolutions 46/37 F of 9 December 1991, 48/76 E of
16 December 1993, 49/76 D of 15 December 1994, 50/71 C of 12 December 1995,
52/220 of 22 December 1997, 53/78 F of 4 December 1998, 54/55 F of 1 December
1999, 55/34 E of 20 November 2000, 56/25 E of 29 November 2001 and 57/89 of
22 November 2002,
Underlining the revitalization of the Regional Centre, the efforts made by the
Government of Peru and other countries to that end, as well as the important work
done by the Director of the Centre,
Recognizing that the Regional Centre has continued to act as an instrument for
the implementation of regional initiatives and has intensified its contribution to the
coordination of United Nations efforts towards peace and security,
Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General, 1 which concludes that the
Regional Centre also acts as a facilitator for the implementation of regional
initiatives by identifying regional security needs and new areas of cooperation with
States and organizations in the region, by providing more in-depth information on
firearms matters, including training for the law enforcement community and nongovernmental organizations on such matters, and by promoting the dissemination of
information on security issues among diplomats, the military, non-governmental
organizations and civil society,
Welcoming also that the report stresses that the Regional Centre has initiated a
new level of activity in the important area of disarmament and development, and
encouraging the Centre to further develop this activity,
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