CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – St. Lucia is internet hosting the third annual assembly of States of the Caribbean Firearms Roadmap that begins right here on Tuesday, bringing collectively officers from the Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) and the Dominican Republic.
The assembly was organized by the Trinidad-based CARICOM Implementation Company for Crime and Safety (IMPACS) and the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament, and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) in collaboration with the St. Lucia authorities.
The federal government of Canada is funding the two-day occasion. It brings collectively nationwide officers, ministers of safety, and different high-level representatives from the Caribbean area and the worldwide neighborhood to debate ongoing efforts to fight the illicit proliferation and misuse of firearms and ammunition.
“The trafficking and misuse of illicit firearms and ammunition proceed to end in excessive murder and crime charges in lots of Caribbean States, negatively impacting human and public safety. In addition they vastly have an effect on socioeconomic improvement throughout the area, together with the general public well being implications of gun deaths and accidents and the affect of crime on enterprise improvement and funding,” in response to an announcement issued by the organizers that additionally indicated that the assembly just isn’t open to the media.
It stated to deal with these challenges, in 2020, all 15 CARICOM states and the Dominican Republic adopted the Caribbean Firearms Roadmap, formally referred to as ‘Roadmap for Implementing The Caribbean Precedence Actions on the Illicit Proliferation of Firearms and Ammunition throughout the Caribbean Sustainably by 2030’, with the imaginative and prescient of making a safer Caribbean area.
“Since then, the Roadmap has served as a guiding doc to attain the generally agreed targets and actions, which embrace strengthening regulatory frameworks on firearms and ammunition; lowering the illicit circulate of firearms into, inside, and past the area, and strengthening legislation enforcement capability to fight illicit firearms trafficking. To realize these targets, states are creating Nationwide Motion Plans (NAPs), which set out states’ nationwide priorities and timelines.”
The assertion stated that for the previous years, state companions and donors from the worldwide neighborhood have gathered just about to debate the Roadmap’s implementation.
It stated this 12 months, for the primary time, they may meet in particular person over two days to take inventory and renew their dedication to totally and successfully implementing the Roadmap’s targets.
The primary day of the assembly is devoted to the Roadmap’s operational facets, together with the significance of evidence-based policymaking primarily based on knowledge assortment efforts and a sturdy monitoring and analysis framework.
“Individuals will even share finest practices and classes realized from nationwide flagship initiatives to deal with armed violence throughout the area,” the organizers stated, including that numerous different stakeholders together with the Group of American States (OAS), Worldwide Prison Police Group (INTERPOL), the United Nations Growth Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Workplace on Medicine and Crime (UNODC), the Small Arms Survey (SAS) and the World Customs Group (WCO) will even make interventions.
On the ultimate day of the assembly, nationwide safety ministers and senior officers will meet with a “view to taking inventory of the numerous progress and important achievements made underneath the Roadmap up to now, whereas inspecting methods to attain additional progress to beat current implementing gaps to strengthen additional the safety of the Caribbean area and its communities.
The United Nations Beneath-Secretary-Common and Excessive Consultant for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, will take part within the assembly that “will conclude with the adoption of a joint assertion.”
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