A/RES/55/255. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2001

• Resolution Number: A/RES/55/255
• Session: 55th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/55/255

General Assembly Distr.: General

8 June 2001

Fifty-fifth session

Agenda item 105

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/55/383/Add.2)]

55/255. Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and

Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components

and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations

Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

The General Assembly,

Recalling its resolution 53/111 of 9 December 1998, in which it decided to

establish an open-ended intergovernmental ad hoc committee for the purpose of

elaborating a comprehensive international convention against transnational

organized crime and of discussing the elaboration, as appropriate, of international

instruments addressing trafficking in women and children, combating the illicit

manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and

ammunition, and illegal trafficking in and transporting of migrants, including by sea,

Recalling also its resolution 54/126 of 17 December 1999, in which it

requested the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against

Transnational Organized Crime to continue its work, in accordance with

resolutions 53/111 and 53/114 of 9 December 1998, and to intensify that work in

order to complete it in 2000,

Recalling further its resolution 55/25 of 15 November 2000, by which it

adopted the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the

Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women

and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational

Organized Crime, and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea

and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational

Organized Crime,

Reaffirming the inherent right to individual or collective self-defence

recognized in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, which implies that

States also have the right to acquire arms with which to defend themselves, as well

as the right of self-determination of all peoples, in particular peoples under colonial

or other forms of alien domination or foreign occupation, and the importance of the

effective realization of that right,