Portugal (on behalf of the States Members of the United Natons that are members of the EU), 7 June 2000 ... to promote the comprehensive approach on small arms and light weapons. ... ... (b) Commitments regarding the production, transfer, acquisition and hldings of small arms in accordance with legitimate national and collective defence taking into account internal security needs, and the destruction of surpluses; ... ... (e) Marking, record keeping and tracing; ... EU supports increased transparency in international arms transfers in particular through the submission of responses to the United Nations Register of Concentional Arms. EU encourages all States Members of the United Nations to submit their national data to the Register in full and on time. Warsaw Call for Action, 17-18 March 2000 (representatives of a number of EU members and candidate countries, NGOs, observers) 4. In the Warsaw Call for Action, the participants agreed on the importance of strengthening and deepening cooperation between EU member States and candidate countries of efforts to: (a) combat illicit arms trafficking and enhance measures to regulate legal arms transfers; ... ... (c) strengthening end-use controls in all their aspects; .. (e) improving accountability and transparency in relation to production, transfers and holdings of arms; ... (g) marking, record keeping and tracing of small arms and light weapons. Tbilisi Roundtable, 15-16 April 2000 (countries of South Caucasus, NGOs) 7. ... They also noted that more transparency was needed on the legal trade and production of small arms in the region. ...to develop a regional small arms register and/ or regular information exchange mechanism between Governments at the subregional level... improve marking, record keeping and tracing ... and destruction of surplus military weapons... Washington Communique of the Eminent Persons Group (independent international commission of 20 world leaders under co-chairmanship of former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard and President Alpha Oumar Konare of Mali), 2-4 May 2000 9. Members of the Eminent Persons Group, an independent international commission, met in Washington from 2-4 May 2000 under the co-chairmanship of President Alpha Oumar Konare and former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard with the aim of advancing elements of a plan of action for the 2001 Conference. The objective of the Group is to prevent the proliferation of illicit small arms by applying a cooperative regulatory approach to licit small arms transfers, both commercial and non-commercial. Within that overall objective, the goal is to curb the illicit trafficking in small arms by reducing diversion from the licit trade. In its Washington Communique of 4 May 2000, the Eminent Persons Group called for a cooperative regulatory approach to focus on all aspects of small arms transfers, government as well as commercial, licit as well as illicit. The aim of such an approach is to promote a small arms control regime based upon preventive measures (e.g. small arms register, strengthened national controls, including import and export regulation, and an international code of conduct) and reduction measures (e.g. weapons collection and reconstruction programmes and conflict prevention strategies). Antigua Declaration on the Proliferation of Light Weapons in the Central American Region, 27-29 June 2000 (countries of Central America, NGOs, observers) ...11. The participants adpted the Antigua Declaration on the Proliferation of Light Weapons in the Central American Region, in which they committed themselves, inter alia: (a) to invite the international comunity to establish harmonized controls on the legal trade in weapons according to existing international standards of human rights and humanitarian law... (b) to consider the implementation of a moratorium on the export and import of all weapons to and from the Central American region, similar to the one currently in force among the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) EPG HOME