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Third Biennial Meeting of States on SALW, New York

14?18 July 2008

• TRESA Module: Marking and Tracing Small Arms and Light Weapons (2008)
  by M.Ashkenazi, C.Beeck, E.Isikozlu (BICC)

On the occasion of the “Third Biennial Meeting of States (BMS) to Consider the Implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons In All Its Aspects” in New York (14?18 July), the German Federal Foreign Office and BICC invite to a panel discussion on “Implications of the International Tracing Instrument at the Regional, National and Community Levels” on 17 July, German House. Panelists are Michael Hasenau, Deputy Head, Conventional Arms Control, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Dr. Michael Ashkenazi, Senior Researcher and Head of SALW Control Program, BICC, Wolf Christian Paes, Senior Researcher, BICC, Dr. Riak Gok Majok, Director, Community Security and Arms Control Bureau, Government of Southern Sudan, Baffour Amoa, Director, West Africa Action Network on Small Arms (WAANSA), and Peter J. Croll, Director, BICC, as moderator.

On 16 July the Canadian government will host a lunchtime side event with the title "Sudan: Arms, Armed Groups, and Armed Violence". Eric Berman (Small Arms Survey, SAS) will chair the meeting with Robert Muggah (SAS), Henry Smith (Saferworld) and Wolf-Christian Paes (BICC) presenting.