Advanced Regional PSSM Course Completed, Certification Ceremony Held

Certificates were awarded to 23 experts from Ministries of Interior and Police Services in South East Europe who completed the week-long Advanced Regional Course on Armament and Ammunition Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM), funded by the European Union and organized by UNDP SEESAC in Budva and Podgorica, Montenegro, 11 – 15 April 2016.
 

“It is important that the knowledge gained through the course is shared further with your peers and practitioners in your institutions to maximize the benefit of the course”, Montenegro’s Interior Ministry Acting Director General for International Cooperation Ms. Tanja Ostojic said at the certification ceremony.
 

“Promoting just, peaceful and inclusive societies is one of the 17 Global Goals that we have agreed at the global level to strive towards and determined to achieve by 2030", UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative Ms. Fiona McCluney told the participants of the course during the ceremony.
 

“I’m confident that the course achieved its aim to provide you with much needed specialized knowledge on the best practices and arms control international standards”, Ms. McCluney said in her remarks and added that “UNDP and SEESAC are proud and strongly committed to continue this strong partnership with the institutions in the region and our valuable partners, towards a safer and more secure region”. 
 

The Advanced PSSM Course is the continuation of the Basic PSSM training held last year in Mavrovo, organized for the same participants from Ministries of Interior (MoI) and Police Services from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The training focused on securing storage of armament and ammunition in accordance with the International Small Arms Control Standards.
 

EU SUPPORT OF SEESAC DISARMAMENT AND ARMS CONTROL ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE (EUSAC)

The European Union entrusted SEESAC with the implementation of a series of region-wide activities in the period 2014 – 2016 through EU COUNCIL DECISION 2013/730/CFSP. The regional course is part of Component 1 of the resulting EUSAC Project (EU Support of SEESAC Disarmament and Arms Control Activities in South East Europe) which is an integral part of the SEESAC SALW Control portfolio.
 

EUSAC marks a continuation of the trust placed in SEESAC by the EU since 2002. The Union previously supported SEESAC through Council Decision 2002/842/CFSP, extended and amended by Council Decisions 2003/807/CFSP and 2004/791/CFSP. Most recently, the Union supported SEESAC arms control activities through Council Decision 2010/179/CFSP.
 

Designed in close cooperation with national authorities, the EUSAC project works on the following five interrelated streams of activities:
 

  • Increased security of stockpiles: through the renovation and security improvements to storages of arms and ammunition.
  • Stockpile reduction: through the destruction of surplus arms and ammunition held in storages.
  • Improved marking, tracing and registration of SALW: through the provision of support to the establishment or enhancement of existing weapons registration and record-keeping systems.
  • Improved regional cooperation on awareness raising, information sharing and knowledge transfer: through the facilitation of regional cooperation between national institutions tasked with arms control.
  • Implementation of collection and awareness raising campaigns.
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