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Concerned that in the African continent alone, there are one hundred
million uncontrolled & unregulated small arms and light weapons
1. Expresses its appreciation since the UNCTED and the UNODA are working
to develop a project enhancing national legislative, strategic and
operational capacities to prevent, detect and counter the fire arms
trafficking;
2. Instructs member states to take actions in order to tighten the security at
world borders in order to reduce porous borders and small arms
proliferation;
3. Suggests that new technologies such as X-ray scanners and CCTV
cameras are installed at cargo ports, to detect armaments in containers
that undergo cross country shipping;
4. Endorses NGOs like Peace Direct to help educate the population about
peace through awareness campaigns that will mostly target the young as
they are the future of the world;
5. Draws the attention of countries that legalize light weapons to run
background checks on the weapon owners to ensure that they are not
mentally ill or deranged;
6. Requests security agencies to search and destroy illicit weapon
manufacturing and trading dealers especially in countries where terrorists
and criminal activities are common;
7. Encourages the nuclear weapon states to consider various proposals
designed to secure the avoidance of the use of nuclear weapons, nuclear
war and related objectives, where possible through international
agreement;
8. Strongly condemns the use of weapons that involve the hostile use of
environmental modification techniques in order to eliminate the dangers
to mankind from such use;
9. Urges the strengthening of existing weapon-free zones and encourages
the establishment of other weapon-free zones in various countries to
allow easy sheltering of refugees from war;
10. Calls upon the governments to reinforce the Chemical Weapon
Convention (CWC) to further restrict the research and use of chemical
weapons as a matter of high priority;