A/RES/70/29
United Nations
Distr.: General
11 December 2015
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 97 (n)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 7 December 2015
[on the report of the First Committee (A/70/460)]
70/29.
Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small
arms and light weapons and collecting them
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 69/33 of 2 December 2014 on assistance to States for
curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them,
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,
Recalling also the International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and
Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons,
adopted on 8 December 2005,3
Recalling further the expression of support in the 2005 World Summit
Outcome for 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,4
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1
A/CONF.192/PC/23, annex.
A/59/2005.
3
See decision 60/519 and A/60/88 and Corr.2, annex.
4
Resolution 60/1, para. 94.
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