International Code of Conduct…

The 27th Conference resolves that national federations and associations (NFAs) use their influence in international diplomacy to promote international security through disarmament and lower levels of weapons by:

1. Adopting the Framework Convention which is based on the International Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers, first proposed in May 1997 at the United Nations by Dr Oscar Arias and other Nobel Peace Laureates, to control and reduce global weapon sales;
2. encouraging the adoption by all countries of the Nobel Peace Laureates’ proposed International Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers as presented in the Framework Convention;
3. assisting in other international efforts to reduce the world-wide diffusion of small arms through programmes currently being developed, such as the International NGO Action Network on Small Arms, which promotes measures to control small arms already in circulation and illicit arms.