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UNDP SEESAC Presents its work at the RACVIAC PSSM Seminar

UNDP SEESAC presented its work in Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) on 17 May 2016 at the two-day PSSM Seminar held by RACVIAC – Centre for Security Cooperation in Zagreb.
 

As part of Component 1 of its EU-funded EUSAC project, aiming to reduce the threat posed by the spread and illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons (SALW) and their ammunition through capacity development of personnel tasked with managing stockpiles, UNDP SEESAC held two regional and two national PSSM courses. The PSSM Courses complement the efforts to increase security of storages through infrastructure improvements implemented under the same component of the EUSAC project. UNDP SEESAC worked on refurbishing SALW and ammunition storages in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo1 and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, while works on three other storages, in Moldova, Albania and Serbia are ongoing.
 

Prior to the EUSAC project, SEESAC successfully assisted the upgrade of 7 SALW and ammunition storages in the Western Balkans, as well as held 3 PSSM training modules for 58 officials from the ministries of defence and interior of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia (See SEESAC's previous work on SALW Storage Upgrades and Management Capacity Building).
 

RACVIAC’s PSSM Seminar is organized in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports of the Republic of Austria, with the aim of discussing the possibilities of potential cooperation with the purpose of improving managerial, systematic and infrastructural aspects of PSSM.
 

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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