UN BIENNIAL MEETING OF STATES ON SMALL ARMS BEGAN IN NEW YORK
On 14 July, the United Nations biennial meeting of states on implementing the UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons Programme began at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York. Lithuania's Permanent Representative to the UN Dalius Čekuolis is Chair-designate of the meeting. This major event on the 2008 UN security and disarmament agenda will continue till July 18. During the meeting of states, four key topics will be discussed: international cooperation and assistance in solving problems related to small arms; management of stockpiles; illicit arms brokering and marking and identification. The meeting should also project future objectives for the UN small arms process.
Since 2004, comprehensively seeking to implement principles of the international humanitarian law as much as possible, Lithuania has allotted more than half a million Litas to various disarmament projects in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Lithuania funds mine-clearing operations and chairs the Standing Committee on Mine Clearance of the Mine Ban Convention and the international conference of the Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
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