Director General/Executive Director
Уважаемые участники конференции,
Дамы и Господа,
Коллеги,
Год назад Российская Федерация организовала международную конференцию, посвященную важнейшей и актуальной теме противодействия незаконным поставкам оружия в контексте борьбы с международным терроризмом. Эта инициатива встретила широкую международную поддержку, в том числе Управления ООН по наркотикам и преступности, и сегодня мы имеем прекрасную возможность вновь собраться в гостеприимной Москве и обсудить эту острую тему.
Я надеюсь, что в ходе широкой дискуссии у нас будет возможность сфокусировать внимание на необходимости конкретных шагов с целью укрепления международного сотрудничества и надежного перекрытия каналов незаконного оборота оружия.
A priority area for action is tackling the linkages between terrorism and transnational organized crime.
Two recently adopted UN Security Council resolutions, namely resolutions 2482 and 2462, highlight the threat of terrorists benefitting financially and logistically from transnational organized crime.
This includes profiting from the trafficking of illicit arms but also from human trafficking; the trafficking of drugs, cultural property and natural resources; kidnapping for ransom; and other crimes such as extortion and bank robbery.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime, with its broad mandates addressing transnational organized crime, drugs, corruption and terrorism, supports governments in taking effective steps to cut off all material and financial support for terrorism.
Illicit weapons trafficking is often associated with other forms of organized crime.
Holistic crime prevention and criminal justice approaches are thus required to address the threat of terrorists acquiring firearms, while safeguarding licit markets.
The UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, their Parts and Components and Ammunition can support governments in taking such action.
Provisions of the Convention and Protocol specifically address legislative requirements and the criminalization of offences relating to the manufacturing, trafficking and marking of firearms, and preventive, security and regulatory control measures.
Based on UNODC's long-standing experience in delivering capacity-building assistance to prevent and counter crime, corruption and terrorism, I would highlight the following three essential elements to an effective response:
Firstly, governments should take steps to ensure coherence between domestic anti-crime and counter-terrorism legislation with relevant regional and international legal conventions and protocols.
Secondly, governments need to reinforce national inter-agency cooperation as well as regional and international cooperation, including information and intelligence sharing, including on financial intelligence.
And thirdly, we need more resources to build specialized expertise and capacity to detect and investigate these crimes, including among Financial Intelligence Units and criminal justice officials.
UNODC, through our integrated country, regional and global programmes, is helping to strengthen such responses in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, Syria and Iraq as well as Central and Southeast Asia.
In 2018 and 2019, our Global Firearms Programme and Terrorism Prevention Branch, working closely with our network of field offices, have supported more than 50 countries.
We have partnered with the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, theSecurity Council Counter-Terrorism Committee and the Office for Disarmament Affairs with the aim of implementing a project on "Addressing the terrorism-arms-crime nexus" to prevent and combat the illicit trafficking of small-arms and light weapons and their illicit supply to terrorists in the Central Asian region.
Our Office continues to promote efforts to prevent chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear terrorism by supporting States to become party to relevant international legal instruments and supporting implementation at the national level.
UNODC is also providing support through the global Container Control Programme, AIRCOP and the Maritime Crime Programme to secure the global supply chain, protect people and trade on the high seas, and enhance the security of international air transport.
Excellencies,
Terrorism and organized crime are global challenges, with global consequences. It is essential that we take comprehensive action to address terrorism-crime linkages, including illicit arms trafficking, to keep weapons out of the hands of terrorists and deprive them of resources to carry out their deadly attacks.
Our meeting today can build on and further advance our efforts to strengthen multilateral responses.
UNODC is here to support you.
I look forward to our discussion. Thank you.