4. 大会在其 1998 年 12 月 9 日第 53/111 号决议中要求拟订一项打击跨国有组织犯罪的全面国际公约，并在适宜时拟订其他国际文书，包括打击非法制造和贩运枪支、枪支零部件和弹药的国际文书和为此设立一个不限成员名额的特设政府间委员会。在拟订这些文书过程中，拟订一项打击跨国有组织犯罪公约特设委员会审议了处理枪支、枪支零部件和弹药问题的文书是否也可处理爆炸物的问题。经过审议后，根据提供的关于爆炸物不属于大会第 53/111 号决议所确定的职权范围的法律意见，特设委员会决定不在此种文书中提及爆炸物。
4. In its resolution 53/111 of 9 December 1998, the General Assembly called for the elaboration of a comprehensive international convention against transnational organized crime and, as appropriate, further international instruments, including an instrument combating the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components, and ammunition, and established an open-ended intergovernmental ad hoc committee for that purpose. In the course of developing those instruments, the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime considered whether the instrument dealing with firearms, their parts and components, and ammunition, should also deal with explosives. After some deliberation, and based on legal advice to the effect that explosives did not fall within the mandate established by Assembly resolution 53/111, the Ad Hoc Committee decided to exclude references to explosives.