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UN Conference on Illicit Trade in Small Arms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2001

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References

1 GA Res. 54/54 (Dec. 1, 1999); UN Press Release on United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms 10th Meeting and Round-up (July 21, 2001) [hereinafter Round-up], at <http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/DC2795.doc.htm>.

2 See Colum, Lynch, U.S. Fights U.N. Accord to Control Small Arms, Wash. Post, July 10, 2001, at A1 Google Scholar; see also Barbara Crossette, Effort by UN. to Cut Traffic in Arms Meets a U.S. Rebuff, N.Y. Times July 10, 2001, at A6. For information generally on U.S. arms sales to developing states, see Congressional Research Service, Conventional Arms Transfer to Developing Nations, 1992–1999, CRS Doc. No. RL30640 (Aug. 18, 2000).

3 [Editor’s Note: 22 U.S.C. §§2750–2799 (1994).]

4 [Editor’s Note: 22 C.F.R. §§120–130 (1999).]

5 John, R. Bolton, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, Address to UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its’ Aspects (July 9, 2001)Google Scholar, at <http://www.state.gov/t/us/rm/2001/>.

6 See Colum, Lynch, Nations Reach Pact on Trade of Small Arms, Wash. Post, July 22, 2001, at A17 Google Scholar.

7 See Draft Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, UN Doc. A/Conf.l92/L.5/Rev.1 (July 20, 2001), available at <http://www.un.org/Depts/dda/CAB/smallarms/>; see also Colum, Lynch, Nations Try to Salvage Voluntary Gun Accord, Wash. Post, July 21, 2001, at A19 Google Scholar.