Traduction de «disciplina penale delle armi » (Italien → Anglais) :

C. whereas a number of nuclear-weapons-free zone treaties already exist for other regions of the world, namely Latin America and the Caribbean, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, Africa and Central Asia; whereas Mongolia’s self-declared nuclear-weapon-free status has been recognised through the adoption of the UN General Assembly’s resolution on Mongolia’s international security and nuclear-weapon-free status; whereas there are other treaties that also deal with the denuclearisation of certain areas, such as the Antarctic Treaty, the Outer Space Treaty, the Moon Agreement and the Seabed Treaty;

26. Welcomes the opening on 26 January 2009 of the first ever trial at the ICC, against Thomas Lubanga of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and notes that it represents the first trial in the history of international criminal law to see the active participation of victims in the proceedings; in that context, urges the ICC to intensify its outreach efforts with a view to engaging communities in countries in crisis situations in a process of constructive interaction with the ICC, designed to promote understanding and support for its mandate, to manage expectations and to enable those communities to follow and understand the internat ...[+++]ional criminal justice process; welcomes the cooperation of the DRC in the transfer of Thomas Lubanga, Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo to the ICC; however, deplores the fact that the ICC warrant for the arrest of Bosco Ntaganda has not yet been executed, and calls on the upcoming meetings of the General Affairs and External Relations Council to demand the immediate arrest and surrender of Bosco Ntaganda to the ICC; notes with concern that the already volatile situation in the DRC has recently been further destabilised by new attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which brutally massacred at least 620 civilians and abducted more than 160 children between 24 December 2008 and 13 January 2009 in northern DRC; therefore emphasises the need to arrest LRA commanders as a matter of urgency, as demanded in Parliament’s resolution of 21 October 2008 on the indictment and bringing to trial of Joseph Kony at the International Criminal Court; notes with concern that the ICC warrants for the arrest of four members of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda have still not been executed;

(6) The Firearms Directive regulates the acquisition, possession, and the commercial exchange within the EU of civil firearms (e.g. firearms used for sport shooting and hunting).

2. Urges the international community to start negotiations on an International Arms Trade Treaty within the United Nations directly after the 2006 UN Programme of Action Review Conference in order to establish a legally binding instrument to regulate arms transfers as described in the previous paragraph;

At its meeting of 7 November 2005, the Joint Cooperation Council established the broad lines of the future revision of the TDCA, covering further liberalisation of trade, minor adjustments to the Title on Development Cooperation, updating of the wording of several provisions concerning economic cooperation and cooperation in other areas, and the addition of new provisions on such matters as Terrorism, the International Criminal Court, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Mercenaries and Small Arms.

C. recalling its view that multilateral consultation mechanisms which ensure that all Member States are swiftly informed of approvals and denials of export licences, effective common mechanisms for the monitoring of end-use agreements, control of licensing agreements and European legislation governing arms brokering by EU nationals, are all indispensable elements of a responsible and effective regime of arms export controls,