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South-east European Surplus Arms:State Policies and Practices

Third RASR WorkshopSarajevo, 4 November 2010

Jasna Lazarevic, Small Arms Survey


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Todays presentation

Policy options for surplus disposal

Guidelines and best practices

State-held arms and ammunition

Seized and confiscated arms and ammo

Concluding remarks

Questions and discussion

Third RASR Workshop Sarajevo, 4 November 2010


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Surplus arms:policy options for surplus disposal

Sales and donations

Own use (training and

distribution) Storage

Donations to museums

and collections

Destruction


Weapons are destroyed in a furnace in Smederevo, Serbia, 2003


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Surplus arms:guidelines and best practices

No legally binding treaty

Examples of internationaland regional frameworks

UN Reports (1997 & 1999)

UN PoA

OSCE UN Firearms protocol


Seized and confiscated weapons stored in former prison facilities, Podgorica, Montenegro, 2010


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Surplus arms: state-held weapons

Account for most of the surplu

Surplus identification process

Various methods of disposal


Surplus SA-7 missiles are detonated in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2004


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Surplus arms: identification process

Who identifies surplus How is surplus identifiedWho approves the

method of disposal

Who implements the

approved decision

Albania MoD Physical conditions

Proximity to the populationMoD

BiH MoD

Highly unstable and in critical

condition

Storage conditions

Presidency Commission

Bulgaria Chief of general staff

Restructuring and

modernization of armed

forces

Commission (MoD,

armed forces, other

committees)

Specialized commission

CroatiaGeneral staff procurement

commission

Technical condition

Operational needsMoD

Montenegro armyCommission (MoD, general staff,

technicians)

Technical conditions

Operational needsGovernment

policeCommission (police directorate,

armourers, experts)

Council of the police

directorate

Commission (judicial

department, police

directorate, MoI, civil

society)

Romania armyMoD joint logistics command;

Ministry of AdministrationCouncil of National Defence

police MoI's general logistics command

SerbiaGeneral staff logistics division and the

department for material resources

Serviceability

Technical conditions and useMoD


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State-held weapons:methods of disposal


Methods of disposal of surplus state stockpiles


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Seized and confiscated weapons:methods of disposal


Methods of disposal of seized and confiscated weapons


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Surplus arms: concluding remarks

Sell first, then

donate and

finally destroy

Risk of exporting the

problems related to

surplus management

Limit the time for sales


Small arms destruction in Cambodia, 2007


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Questions?

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rasr workshop sas states policies and practices 4nov10

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