1. Precedent in the Making: The UN Meeting of Governmental Experts
- Author:
- Glenn McDonald
- Publication Date:
- 03-2012
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Small Arms Survey
- Abstract:
- How to stop a criminal from removing the identifying marks on a polymerframe handgun? This was the kind of question asked, and sometimes answered, at the Open-ended Meeting of Governmental Experts (MGE), convened at UN headquarters in New York from 9 to 13 May 2011. For the first time at a UN small arms meeting, the discussions were expert-led and relatively interactive as delegations focused on the practical details of weapons marking, record-keeping, and tracing, specifically as dealt with in the International Tracing Instrument (ITI) (UNGA, 2005).
- Topic:
- Political Violence, Arms Control and Proliferation, Crime, Government, and United Nations
- Political Geography:
- New York