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Kawaguchi

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2005-02-17
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2005-02-17
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  1. “In June 2006, the United Nations Review Conference on the implementation of the Programme of Action will be convened. Through our efforts towards that review meeting, I hope there will be good progress in the area of small arms and light weapons to be reported in the Secretary-General's report next year. We reaffirm our commitment to cooperate with the United Nations in implementing the Programme of Action, and, as a nation dedicated to world peace and stability, we are determined to intensify our efforts to address the issue of small arms and light weapons.”

    2005-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5127 (2005) · source

  2. “From this viewpoint, we will continue to provide assistance on the ground to countries affected by the scourge of small arms. Collection and destruction of illicit small arms and light weapons, capacity-building in the development of appropriate legislation and regulations and import and export control are the areas where cooperation from the international community is especially needed. With this in mind, Japan has been conducting a Weapons-for- Development project in Cambodia for the past two years, funded by Grant Aid for Peace-Building Assistance in the amount of over $8 million. We are now studying the possibility of cooperating further with some African countries, utilizing, among others, the Small Arms Trust Fund that Japan has established under the United Nations Global and Regional Disarmament Trust Fund.”

    2005-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5127 (2005) · source

  3. “Japan has also been involved in similar projects in Africa; in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, we are cooperating with United Nations organizations involved with DDR projects. Behind these actions is the idea of the consolidation of peace that I promoted as one of the pillars of Japan's foreign policy during my tenure as Foreign Minister of Japan, which ended not long ago. The idea is to provide the necessary assistance for countries in post-conflict situations to make a smooth transition towards nation-building. I am confident that those efforts are gradually bearing fruit. This idea of consolidating peace is in line with the High-level Panel's key notion that in today's globalized world, international peace and security issues are closely linked to international development problems.”

    2005-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5127 (2005) · source

  4. “While progress has been made in a number of areas, the report reminds us that there are many more challenges to overcome. In order to help make progress in DDR, Japan has been taking concrete actions. For instance, in Afghanistan, a country afflicted by the protracted internal conflicts, the implementation of DDR is imperative to attain sustainable peace and security. With this perspective in mind, Japan, as a lead nation in the area of DDR in Afghanistan, has been assisting the DDR process by providing vocational training for ex-soldiers to facilitate their reintegration through dispatching experts and by implementing reintegration projects at the grass-roots level.”

    2005-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5127 (2005) · source

  5. “Marking and tracing illicit small arms and light weapons is one of the most important tasks set out in the Programme of Action. As the Secretary-General's report points out, the Open-ended Working Group established by the General Assembly has made some progress, and Japan has made a number of constructive contributions to discussions there, especially as a non- exporter of weapons in principle. Japan will continue to do so to achieve a successful outcome at the Working Group. The disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) process in post-conflict situations, the detailed updates of which are provided in the report, has become an important tool to ensure that a country in a post-conflict situation does not backslide into a state of conflict.”

    2005-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5127 (2005) · source

  6. “The guiding light in the United Nations process to tackle the small arms issue comes from the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, adopted in 2001. In order to help implement the Programme of Action, we have taken a number of actions, including the sponsoring of seminars and workshops in various places in regions such as Tokyo, Bali, Kazakhstan and Fiji. Another workshop is being planned for April of this year by Japan, China, Switzerland and the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific as a regional initiative, by inviting countries from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Central Asia in order to support their national implementation of the Programme of Action.”

    2005-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5127 (2005) · source

  7. “The General Assembly's annual resolutions on small arms and light weapons provide pragmatic prescriptions through which the international community seeks to solve the problems, and as a sponsor, along with Colombia and South Africa, we think it significant that the resolutions were adopted by consensus. The United Nations Panel of Governmental Experts on Small Arms and the Group of Governmental Experts on Small Arms, both chaired by Ambassador Mitsuro Donowaki, are another example of Japan's contributions to efforts in this area. Let me focus on a few points that my Government considers to be important in addressing the issue of small arms and light weapons. I believe that they are closely related to the important elements in the report of the Secretary-General.”

    2005-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5127 (2005) · source

  8. “The question of small arms and light weapons is a multidisciplinary issue in the sense that the widespread use of small arms not only results in a large number of casualties but also has a socio-economic dimension, insofar as it gives rise to other issues such as child soldiers and the disruption of recovery and development in post-conflict situations. In other words, this is an important area where the nexus of peace and development - which is the key underlying notion of the report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (A/59/565) - shows itself. That is why Japan has been attaching great importance to this issue.”

    2005-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5127 (2005) · source

  9. “At the outset, Sir, I wish to say how pleased I am to participate in this Council meeting today held under your presidency. I am privileged and truly grateful for the opportunity afforded me to express my Government's position on the issue of small arms and light weapons. I would also like to express my appreciation to Mr. Nobuyasu Abe, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, for his comprehensive introduction of the Secretary- General's report. This report, which effectively identified both the progress made in the area of small arms over a period of slightly more than a year and the challenges to be addressed in the future, will serve as a valuable guidepost for our future work.”

    2005-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5127 (2005) · source