Identify in detail the arms brokers who transact business with and or on behalf of the arms market.

Many parties were engaged in the arms transactions.

The Monitoring Group suggested that joint efforts in the regulation of arms brokering would significantly strengthen the effectiveness of the arms embargo.

A. Bakaraaha Arms Market, arms trading networks and the opposition

In addition, the opposition was supplied with arms by criminal groups or arms trading networks through the medium of the Bakaraaha Arms Market (BAM) at Irtogte in Mogadishu.

Describe the type of transaction records that are typically crested for importation, exportation, purchase or sale of armaments associated with the arms markets.

What are the forms of payment for transactions involving purchases and sales associated with the arms market?

Excessive military expenditures, arms trade and investment for arms production, acquisition and stockpiling have a negative impact on development prospects.

It must also be recalled from past reports that the larger arms dealers at BAM have storage facilities.

Accordingly, the arms trading networks were forced to exercise greater care in the movement of arms shipments from Yemen to Somalia across the Gulf of Aden.

Turkey believes that the conference will allow an in depth analysis of all aspects of the illicit arms trade.

(b) If there exists substantiated evidence of influence from proceeds resulting from internationally recognized criminal activities such as the illicit drugs trade, money laundering or the illegal arms trade

It is significant to note that on 22 May 2005, approximately one week before the second battle of Baidoa, a very large arms shipment arrived from Yemen, via the arms trading networks, at BAM.

The foregoing notwithstanding, arms transactions remained numerous, as indicated in the statistical increase over transactions documented in the previous mandate period.

The Monitoring Group also reported that the replies by States on the ways in which their arms brokering systems could prevent Osama bin Laden, Al Qaida, the Taliban and others from obtaining items under the arms embargo bore witness to the lack of uniform regulation on arms brokering.

In the case of registered firearm dealers importing firearms, once the consignment is cleared by Customs, Police escorts the consignment to the vault of the firearms dealer.

In spite of the above indicated increases in the number of transactions, the Monitoring Group believes that the overall potential supply of arms to BAM has been negatively affected by two factors.

Of the 34 arms shipments identified by the Monitoring Group, 21 transactions were conducted through the Bakaaraha arms market, which reaffirms the central role it plays in the arms trade and in arms embargo violations in Somalia.

And on that stairs, that's where the traffickers always stand and there's a lot of exchange of fire.

Organized networks of traders, smugglers and transnational criminal groups have been identified as facilitators and conduits for most of the arms shipments involved in the arms embargo violations.

2.7 In July 2000, the complainant was again arrested and falsely accused of illegal possession of arms and drug dealing.

The legal arms trade is once more on the rise, and the illegal flow of arms to the world's conflict zones is responsible for countless deaths.

It is planned to fine tune cooperation in combating the illegal spread of narcotic drugs and the weapons trade, and in other aspects of law enforcement of interest to both countries.

28. Identifying the sources of arms flows into Africa is critical to any effort to monitor or regulate this trade.

North of the river, Italian partisans fought German troops and Fascist snipers.

The Monitoring Group determined that about 67 individuals, companies and entities (the commercial chain ) were witting or unwitting parties to the arms transaction process.

Recommendations for Working Group Two

The dealer is required, under the current firearms regulations, to submit a monthly return to the Commissioner of Police of their firearms stock.

We encourage weapons exporting countries to be as responsible as possible in their transactions and to prevent the flow of arms and munitions to areas of instability.

New Zealand welcomes constructive United Nations initiatives to address the problem of illicit arms trading and would support an international conference on the illicit arms trade.

The problems of impunity (paragraph 135) and the arms trade (paragraph 143) are addressed.

Individuals willing to purchase a firearm from a registered dealer are required to apply for a firearm license prior to the purchase of the firearm.

Subsequently, on 13 May, IDF and Hizbollah exchanged fire.

Although the disclosure of the names and locations of brokers involved in an arms transaction is not required, no firearm or ammunition may be sold or transferred other than by a registered dealer in firearms under the current Firearms Act.

A domestically applied and internationally coordinated tax on arms purchases , levied on all heavy conventional weapons purchases

The illicit arms trade, in particular, continues to have disproportionately large effects for the internal security and socio economic development of affected States.

Production, trade, acquisition, collection or exhibition of firearms on the territory of the Republic of Armenia is to be licensed, except for the cases of production and acquisition of firearms by state military organizations.

Canada concurs that international attention needs to be brought to bear on the illicit arms trade.

I'd turn them into Army ordnance.

69 et seq.) and, using UNMIL statistics, it is possible to compare the arms delivered with those surrendered or recovered in Liberia to date.

Also included in the deal were other items of military equipment, such as fatigues.

Finally, on 13 May, there was an exchange of fire between Hizbullah and the IDF.

There was also an exchange of fire between the IDF and Hizbullah in the general area south of Rmeich.

Does the Government of Yemen buy arms from or sell arms to the arms market?

Second, the US, with its incredibly lax restrictions on gun purchases, serves as a veritable arms depot for rich Mexican drug lords. True, they could arguably acquire similar weapons elsewhere, but not necessarily as cheaply and conveniently.