Croatia: SALW Destruction Activities
The objective of SEESAC’s SALW Destruction project is to increase security and diminish the risk of arms proliferation by significantly reducing the number of illegal, unwanted or surplus weapons in storage. In Croatia, SEESAC is helping the Ministry of Interior (MoI) reduce its SALW surplus through a series of co-sponsored destructions.
At the end of November 2010 UNDP/SEESAC met with the representatives of MoI in charge of destruction and agreed to prepare a destruction plan for 2011. Through the weapons collection campaign and earmarking of surplus weapons, the MoI predicted that, by the end of the project period, the total number of SALW to be destroyed will reach 30,000.
Consequently, the Ministry of Interior formed a working group on weapons destruction and over 18,000 SALW have been destroyed by January 2012.
SEESAC’s weapons destruction activities in Croatia are funded by the European Union (EU) under the EU COUNCIL DECISION 2010/179/CFSP, dated 11 March 2010, expressing support for SEESAC arms control activities in the Western Balkans within the framework of the EU Strategy to combat the illicit accumulation and trafficking of SALW and their ammunition.
