The Secretary-General's key recommendations include: On arms and arms trafficking: UN Member States should pass laws enabling prosecution in national courts of violations of Security Council arms embargoes. The Security Council should urgently consider how the UN might help compile, track and publicize information on arms trafficking. African governments should reduce purchases of arms and munitions to 1.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), and maintain zero-growth on defence budgets for the next decade. On sanctions: Economic sanctions are too often a blunt instrument, and should be better targeted, for example, by freezing the assets of decision-makers, their organizations and their families and through restrictions on travel. Combatants should be held financially liable to their victims under international law, where civilians have been deliberately targeted; international legal machinery should be developed to help find and seize the assets of the transgressors. On refugees: An international mechanism should be established to help host governments maintain the security and neutrality of refugee camps. Such camps should be located away from borders; combatants should be separated from genuine refugees. On structural adjustment: The Bretton Woods institutions should consider providing "peace-friendly" structural adjustment programmes. Conditionalities must not be antithetical to a peace process; donors should not cut off funds from a weak government making good-faith, popularly supported efforts to implement peace agreements. On development assistance: Aid should be restructured to focus on high-impact areas (rural water supply, basic education, primary health) and to reduce dependency. Donors should strive to ensure that at least 50 per cent of their aid to Africa is spent in Africa. New sources of funding are required from donor countries. On debt and trade: The scope of the Highly-Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund should be greatly expanded since only four African countries have so far met its conditions. All creditors should convert into grants all remaining official bilateral debt of the poorest African countries. Creditors should consider clearing the entire debt stock of the poorest African countries, as requested by the OAU. The next summit of the Group of 8 industrialized countries should consider eliminating trade barriers to African products. On the Security Council: The Security Council should meet every two years at ministerial level to assess efforts undertaken and actions needed to support peace and development in Africa. The Council should consider convening, within five years, a summit-level session for the same purpose. On international business practices: Countries implementing the Convention Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions should set a timetable for early enactment of national legislation. The OAU should draw up by the year 2000 an African Convention on the Conduct of Public Officials and the Transparency of Public Administration.