据墨西哥城昨天在墨西哥城召开会议上，奥巴马总统敦促参议院承担美国非洲非法制造和贩运枪支，弹药，爆炸物和其他相关材料的非法制造公约，这通常由西班牙首字母缩略词提到，cifta。“公约”旨在通过要求会员国建立基本出口管制，并互相合作以阻止国际武器贩运，为小武器中的非法国际贸易减少。这些控件包括建立有效系统，以授权国际武器转让，确定和预防边境点贩运武器，交换有关非法贩运和打击其最佳做法的信息，并为试图增加其识别和挫败的国家提供技术援助武器贩运。正如序言中所述，“本公约不承诺缔约国制定与枪支所有权，拥有或贸易的立法或法规，拥有全国人物的所有权......”美国在起草公约中发挥了重要作用，并且是其中之一the first signatories in November, 1997. The Convention was transmitted to the Senate in June 1998 and, more than a decade later, still awaits the Senate’s advice and consent. To date, 29 of the 34 OAS member states have ratified the Convention. Only the US, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and St. Vincent & Grenadines have yet to take that step. For more information: Small Arms, Terrorism and the OAS Firearms Convention, FAS Occasional Paper No. 1 "US-Mexico Discuss New Approach to Bilateral Relationship," White House Fact Sheet “Obama in Mexico, pledges help to slow US arms flow,” Associated Press “OAS Firearms Convention,” ASMP Issue Brief #2 “Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials (CIFTA),” Department of International Legal Affairs of the Organization of American States. At a press conference in Mexico City today, President Obama called for Senate action on the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials, which is often referred to by its Spanish acronym, CIFTA. The Convention aims to curtail the illicit international trade in small arms by requiring member states to establish basic controls on arms transfers and cooperate with each other to stop international arms trafficking. These controls include the establishment of effective systems for authorizing international arms transfers, identifying and preventing arms trafficking at border points, exchanging information on illicit trafficking and best practices for combating it, and providing technical assistance to countries attempting to increase their capacity to identify and thwart arms trafficking. Civilian possession and ownership are outside of the convention’s purview. “[T]his Convention does not commit States Parties to enact legislation or regulations pertaining to firearms ownership, possession, or trade of a wholly domestic character…” reads the preamble. The US played an important role in drafting the Convention, and was one of the first signatories in November, 1997. The Convention was transmitted to the Senate in June 1998 and, more than a decade later, still awaits the Senate’s advice and consent. To date, 29 of the 34 OAS member states have ratified the Convention. Only the US, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and St. Vincent & Grenadines have yet to take that step.
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Afghanistan In March, the Sunday Times of London reported on the Taliban’s alleged acquisition of Iranian-supplied SA-14 missiles, which the Afghan insurgent group reportedly wants for a “spectacular” attack on…
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尽管有一百万美元的回购计划和数百名非法武器缓存，但美国和伊拉克部队仍在侵害侵害库存中的地表导弹。美国军事新闻稿......
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CNN and AFP are reporting that the Shabaab, a militant wing of a Somali insurgent group, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), has threatened to treat “as an enemy…
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In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the FAS, the Defense Department has released its contribution to the Fiscal Year 2007 edition of the Annual…
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As part of its on-going efforts to track and call attention to the illicit trade in shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles, the FAS is launching a new e-newsletter called “Missile Watch.” Subscribers will receive periodic updates on the black market trade in shoulder-fired missiles, stockpiling and use of these missiles by non-state groups, and related topics. A comprehensive archive of “Missile Watch” updates will be available on the Strategic Security Blog and on the Arms Sales Monitoring Project’s website at /programs/ssp/asmp/MANPADS.html. To sign up for this free service, go to /press/subscribe.html. The latest report of the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia sheds new light on the SA-18 Igla missiles illicitly acquired by armed Somali groups in recent years. Since 2006, UN investigators and journalists working in Somalia have documented the transfer of dozens, possibly hundreds, of shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles to Islamic insurgents. The missiles range in sophistication from the relatively primitive SA-7b Strela to the third generation SA-18 Igla. In March 2007, two SA-18s were used to shoot down a Belarusian Ilyushin-76 cargo plane shortly after it departed from Mogadishu airport. All eleven crew members were killed.
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周四,著名的军火商维克多布特是一个rrested at a Thai hotel on charges of selling weapons to Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a 40-year-old insurgent group known for drug trafficking and terrorist attacks. In recent years, Bout and his affiliates have been accused of arranging illicit arms transfers in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, and elsewhere. The name “Victor Bout” has become synonymous with the large, clandestine arms shipments that have fueled devastating civil wars in developing countries, and the extreme difficulty of shutting down the global, ever-shifting networks that orchestrate these transfers. His arrest puts arms traffickers on notice that the days of impunity may be coming to an end. The arrest could have significant practical implications as well, depending on the outcome of the case against Bout and the quantity and quality of information about his network acquired by authorities as a result of his arrest. If Bout is tried and convicted, and information collected along the way leads to the arrest and conviction of other key members of his global network – two big “ifs” – his arrest could indeed “mar[k] the end of the reign of one of the world’s most wanted arms traffickers,” as claimed by US Attorney Michael Garcia.
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At a press briefing on Wednesday, John Rood, the Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, fielded questions about the Bush Administration's new Export Control Directive - the latest attempt to reduce delays and inefficiencies in the State Department's export control system. If implemented properly, some of the proposals could help to address long-standing staffing shortages, jurisdictional issues, and Information Technology (IT) problems. Improvements in these areas could help to reduce licensing delays, which, in turn, could alleviate pressure on the State Department to relax export controls.
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A new Congressional Research Service report on "U.S. Arms Sales to Pakistan" recently obtained by the FAS provides a succinct overview of recent U.S. arms sales to General Pervez Musharraf's regime, the tumultous fifty-year history of US security assistance to Pakistan, and presidential authority to stop such sales. The release of the report coincides with a worsening political crisis in Pakistan and growing Congressional and public discontent over the United States' multi-billion dollar military aid program for General Musharraf's beseiged and increasingly authoritarian regime.
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在回应FAS提交的信息法案申请的自由时，国土安全部发布了2005年12月向国会发布了代表大会关于DHS努力抵御人便携式防空系统（MANPADS）到商业客机的威胁的地位。该报告，作为2004年智力改革和恐怖主义预防法案的一部分所需的报告，揭示了几个关键的DHS对抗Manpads努力，包括机场漏洞评估，Manpads攻击的应急计划，以及情报分享和执法培训。这些努力是多方面的美国活动的一部分，以剥夺恐怖主义者对这些武器的访问，并减轻已经在恐怖主义阿森纳的导弹的威胁。
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