United Nations
A/RES/55/255
General Assembly
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 105
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/55/383/Add.2)]
55/255. Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and
Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components
and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 53/111 of 9 December 1998, in which it decided to
establish an open-ended intergovernmental ad hoc committee for the purpose of
elaborating a comprehensive international convention against transnational
organized crime and of discussing the elaboration, as appropriate, of international
instruments addressing trafficking in women and children, combating the illicit
manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and
ammunition, and illegal trafficking in and transporting of migrants, including by sea,
Recalling also its resolution 54/126 of 17 December 1999, in which it
requested the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime to continue its work, in accordance with
resolutions 53/111 and 53/114 of 9 December 1998, and to intensify that work in
order to complete it in 2000,
Recalling further its resolution 55/25 of 15 November 2000, by which it
adopted the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women
and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea
and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime,
Reaffirming the inherent right to individual or collective self-defence
recognized in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, which implies that
States also have the right to acquire arms with which to defend themselves, as well
as the right of self-determination of all peoples, in particular peoples under colonial
or other forms of alien domination or foreign occupation, and the importance of the
effective realization of that right,
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