Welcoming, in this regard, the decision by the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, to convene an African ministerial conference on the illicit proliferation, circulation and trafficking of small arms and light weapons at Bamako in November 2000, the establishment of the Consultative Committee by the States parties to the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Materials, the decision by the Council of Ministers of the Southern African Development Community to conclude its negotiations on a protocol on the control of firearms, ammunition and other related materials in the region of the Southern African Development Community, the decision by the States members of the Economic Community of West African States to implement their Declaration of a Moratorium on the Importation, Exportation and Manufacture of Small Arms and Light Weapons in West Africa,A/53/763-S/1998/1194, annex. and the adoption by the European Union of the Programme for Preventing and Combating Illicit Trafficking in Conventional Arms and the other initiatives it has taken, such as the Joint Action on Small ArmsA/54/374, annex. that has been endorsed by several Member States not members of the European Union,
欢迎非洲统一组织部长理事会在这方面已决定于2000年11月间在巴马科召开一次关于小武器和轻武器的非法扩散、流通与贩运的非洲部长级会议；《美洲国家禁止非法制造和贩运火器、弹药、爆炸物及其他有关材料公约》的缔约国已设立了协商委员会；南部非洲发展共同体部长理事会已决定完成它关于控制南部非洲发展共同体区域内的火器、弹药和其他有关材料的议定书的谈判；西非国家经济共同体成员国已决定执行它们《关于在西非暂停进口、出口和制造小武器和轻武器的宣言》；A/53/763-S/1998/1194，附件。 以及欧洲联盟通过了防止和打击非法贩运常规武器方案以及采取的其他主动行动，例如已获得若干非欧洲联盟成员国核可的《关于小型武器的联合行动》，A/54/374，附件。