Central American Countries to Tackle Small Arms Control

Home>>World

Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Saturday, December 01, 2001

Central American Countries to Tackle Small Arms Control

Experts, government officials and representatives from Central American countries will meet next Monday to discuss the control of small arms trafficking in the region, Costa Rican Vice Foreign Minister Elayne Whyte announced Friday.

He said the meeting, to be held within the framework of the Central American Conference on Small Arms, will help implement the action program on small arms control approved by the United Nations last June.

He said that arms sales without restrictions and easy access to small arms worldwide pose a grave threat to the security of all peoples.

Topics for discussion at the three-day meeting also include police cooperation, intra-regional arms trafficking and the rights of individuals in Central American nations to bear weapons.

It is believed that civilian population in Central America kept a large part of the small arms that were lost in internal conflicts in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua during the 1980s.

China Holds Arms Control Talks with US, Japan

Chinese Official Briefs Foreign Officers on Arms Control