DISARMAMENT A periodic review by the United Nations

Volume: XIX

Number: 2

1996

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Table of Contents:

Address of the Secretary-General to the
Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The Proliferation of Light Weapons, Small Arms and Land-Mines

Micro-disarmament in the Regional Context
Wolfgang Hoffmann and Wolfgang Richter

Land-mines: From Global Negotiations to National and Regional Initiatives
Cornelio Sommaruga

Workshop on Micro-disarmament:
Defining a New Item on the Disarmament Agenda

Introduction
Sohrab Kheradi

Expanding the Disarmament Agenda
Marrack Goulding

Light Weapons and Current Conflicts
Swadesh Rana

Control and Collection of Light Weapons in the Sahel-Sahara Subregion: A Mission Report
Ivor Richard Fung

Disarming and Demobilizing Ex-Combatants: Implementing Micro-disarmament
Herbert Wulf

Surplus Weapons and the Micro-disarmament Process
Edward J. Laurance

Regional Arms Control

Controlling Conventional Weapons in Latin America: A Treaty Proposal
Thomas S. Mowle and Guillermo Balmaseda

Confidence-building Measures: Helping to Ensure the Security of the Western Hemisphere
Francisco Rojas Aravena

The Agreement on Subregional Arms Control of the “Dayton Agreement”
Donna Phelan

Documentation Relating to Disarmament and International Security

Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps
and Other Devices (Amended Protocol II of the Inhumane Weapons Convention)
Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV of the Inhumane Weapons Convention)

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