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The ECOWAS Moratorium on Small Arms in West Africa1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Mutoy Mubiala
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Paraphrasing Pope Paul VI, Professor Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), stated at the closing meeting of the second symposium of the francophone world in Geneva (27–28 October 1999) that ‘peace is development's new name’. Explaining this statement, Professor Ricupero said that peace and development are linked and interdependent, but that in this dynamic relationship, priority may be given for a time to one or the other, depending on the circumstances.

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Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law , Volume 3 , December 2000 , pp. 245 - 257
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Authors 2000

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3. See Paul VI, Encyclique Populorum Progressio, No. 6, cited by de Saint-Moulin, L., ‘L'apport de Jean-Paul II à l'enseignement social de l'Eglise’, 39 Congo-Afrique (1999) p. 266Google Scholar.

4. Joint Action Adopted by the Council on the basis of Article J.3 of the Treaty on European Union: Contribution to Combating the destabilising accumulation and spread of small arms and light weapons, Brussels, 17 December 1998.

5. OAU, ‘First Continental Meeting of African Experts on Small Arms and Light Weapons’, doc. SALW/RPT/EXP (I), May 2000, p. 7.

6. ‘International Conference [on] Sustainable Development (Brussels, 12–13 October 1998): The Brussels Call for Action’, 51 Studio Diplomatica (1998) pp. 31–32; see also Greene, O., ‘Tackling Illicit Arms Trafficking and Small Arms Proliferation: Developing and Implementing the EU Programme of Action’, 51 Studia Diplomatica (1998) pp. 3–29Google Scholar.

7. Back to Basics. Post-Conflict Peace-Building in West Africa: Political and Development Initiatives (New York, UNDP 1997).

8. Poulton, R.E., ag Youssouf, I. and Seek, J., Collaboration internationale et construction de la paix en Afrique de l'Ouest: l'exemple du Mali (Genève, UNIDIR 1999) p. 21Google Scholar.

9. As of 1 January 2001, ECOWAS comprised the 15 following Member States: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Vert, Côte d'lvoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.

10. Rose, T., ‘The Programme for Co-ordination and Assistance for Security and Development in West Africa (PCASED)’, in Lodgaard, S. and Roonfeldt, C.F., eds., A Moratorium on Light Weapons in West Africa (Oslo, NISAT/NIIA 1998) pp. 41–42Google Scholar.

11. S. Sohlman, ‘The Wassenaar Arrangement and the Proposed Moratorium for West Africa’, ibid., pp. 47–50.

12. S. Lodgaard and I.R. Fung, ‘A Moratorium on Light Weapons in West Africa’, ibid., pp. 57–68.

13. O. Adeniji, ‘Regional Arrangements to Constrain the Flow of Arms into Central Africa’, ibid., pp. 85–92.

14. E.J. Laurence, ‘Moratorium on Small Arms and Light Weapons: Conceptualization and Application to Central America’, ibid., pp. 69–83.

15. Ibid., pp. 93–110.

16. ‘Declaration by ECOWAS Ministers of Foreign Affairs on Child Soldiers’, in West Africa Small Arms Moratorium. High-Level Consultations on the Modalities for the Implementation of PCASED (UNIDIR/United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa 1999) pp. 29–30Google Scholar.

17. ‘Code of Conduct for the Implementation of the Moratorium on the Importation, Exportation and Manufacture of Light Weapons’, ibid., p. 53.

18. Established by the Framework Agreement on the ECOWAS Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution and for Peace-Keeping, the Mediation and Security Council is ‘empowered to take decisions on issues of regional peace and security on behalf of the Conference of Heads of State and Government’ (para. 17).

19. ‘The PCASED Advisory Group Evaluates the Implementation of the Moratorium on Light Weapons’, 1 African Peace Bulletin (2000) p. 13Google Scholar.

20. PCASED, Rapport annuel du Directeur à la troisième réunion du Groupe consultatif (Mali, Bamako 26–27 06 2000) pp. 9–11Google Scholar.

21. ECOWAS/PCASED, Guidelines on the Establishment and Functioning of National Commissions against the Proliferation of Small Anns (Lomé, 10 12 1999)Google Scholar.

22. Supra n. 17.

23. Ibid., pp. 33–34.

24. PCASED, Rapport du Directeur à la réunion du Groupe consultatif, deuxième session (22–23 novembre 1999) (Lomé, 11 1999)Google Scholar.

25. Ibid., p. 23.

26. Decision AHG/Doc. 137 (LXX), 14 July 1999.

27. Supra n. 5, p. 5.

28. OAU, ‘International Consultation on the Illicit Proliferation, Circulation and Trafficking in Small Arms and Light Weapons, UN Conference Center, Addis Ababa, 22–23 June 2000, Final Meeting Report’.

29. Reproduced at p. 765 of this volume.

30. As mentioned by S. Lodgaard, ‘the term ‘micro-disarmament’ was introduced by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to draw attention to the veritable problems posed by the flow and use of small arms', see Lodgaard, S., Disarmament, Development and Conflict Prevention. The Case of West Africa (Geneva, UNIDIR 08 1996) p. 7Google Scholar (discussion paper).