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U.N. briefing urges stronger ammunition management, warns of billion-plus firearms in circulation
Summary
A U.N. disarmament representative briefed the Security Council on Secretary-General—s report S/2025/670, highlighting progress on global ammunition management and urgent gaps in preventing diversion, tracing weapons and stemming illicit small-arms flows that exacerbate conflict and humanitarian harm.
A representative of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs briefed the United Nations Security Council on the Secretary-General—s second biennial report on small arms and light weapons (document S/2025/670), calling for comprehensive, lifecycle management of weapons and ammunition and stronger international cooperation.
The briefing, delivered on behalf of High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu, highlighted several recent normative advances, including the 2023 global framework for through-life conventional ammunition management and the 2024 fourth review conference on the Programme of Action, which established an open-ended technical expert group to examine developments in weapons technologies and design. "Member states have taken significant steps to strengthen our global instruments," the representative said.
Why it matters: the representative warned that more than 1,000,000,000 firearms are in circulation worldwide and that continued…
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