A/RES/74/51
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 December 2019
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 98 (o)
General and complete disarmament: assistance to States
for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light
weapons and collecting them
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 12 December 2019
[on the report of the First Committee (A/74/368)]
74/51.
Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms
and light weapons and collecting them
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 73/52 of 5 December 2018,
Deeply concerned by the magnitude of human casualty and suffering, especially
among children, caused by the illicit proliferation and use of small arms and light
weapons,
Concerned by the negative impact that the illicit proliferation and use of those
weapons continue to have on the efforts of States in the Sahelo -Saharan subregion in
the areas of poverty eradication, sustainable development and the maintenance of
peace, security and stability,
Bearing in mind the Bamako Declaration on an African Common Position on
the Illicit Proliferation, Circulation and Trafficking of Small Arms and Light
Weapons, adopted in Bamako on 1 December 2000, 1
Recalling the report of the Secretary-General entitled “In larger freedom:
towards development, security and human rights for all”, 2 in which he emphasized
that States must strive just as hard to eliminate the threat of small arms and light
weapons as they do to eliminate the threat of weapons of mass destruction,
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19-21839 (E)
A/CONF.192/PC/23, annex.
A/59/2005.
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