A/RES/48/75 Page 11 5. Supports and encourages efforts aimed at promoting confidencebuilding measures at the regional level in order to ease regional tensions and to further disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation measures at the regional level; 6. Also encourages States to address, in regional arrangements for disarmament and arms limitations, the question of the accumulation of conventional weapons beyond the legitimate self-defence requirements of States; 7. Encourages States of a region to examine the possibility of creating, on their own initiative, regional mechanisms and/or institutions for the establishment of measures in the framework of an effort of regional disarmament or for the prevention and peaceful settlement of disputes and conflicts with the assistance, if requested, of the United Nations; 8. Invites Member States and regions to bring to the attention of the General Assembly results achieved on regional disarmament, and requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Assembly at its forty-ninth session on the basis of the replies received; 9. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-ninth session the item entitled "Regional disarmament". 81st plenary meeting 16 December 1993 H Measures to curb the illicit transfer and use of conventional weapons The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 46/36 H of 6 December 1991 and its decision 47/419 of 9 December 1992 on international arms transfers, Considering that the availability of massive quantities of conventional weapons is a contributory factor to armed conflicts around the world, Stressing the need for measures that curb the illicit transfer and use of conventional weapons, Recognizing that the excessive quantity of conventional weapons in a number of countries constitutes a source of destabilization of their national and their regional security, Convinced that peace and security are imperatives for economic development and reconstruction, 1. Invites Member States to take appropriate enforcement measures directed at ending the illegal export of conventional weapons from their territories; /...